R&J Literary devices

1)

• "Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie" (II.p.1).
• personification of past desire because the line describes him of lying in a bed and being of old age

2)

• "Young Adam Cupid – he that shot so true," (II.i.14)
• This is an allusion to the well-known cherub cupid and the well-known archer, Adam.

3)

• "Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,"(II.ii.163).to the 
• This is an allusion to the greek nymph named Echo who lived in a cave. This one of many examples of howElizabethann art and literature was heavily influnced by Roman and Grecian art and legends.