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In Romeo and Juliet in act 2 scene 2, Romeo says

With love’s light wings did I o’erprech these walls.

That means:
I Flew over these walls with the light wings of love.Stone walls can’t keep love out.

The question is what language techniques did Shakespeare used here?

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He used personification to give the love wings which it doesn’t have in real life
He also used a metaphor to describe love as being something you can ‘keep out’
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