Romeo and Juliet... The tricks of Shakespeare...

   So I learned that Shakespeare liked to include a lot of different technique-like tricks, such as personification, metaphors, similes, classical allusions, reversed words, reversed thoughts, reversed sentence constructions, and allusions. I thought that the reasons why he did that (other than for the sake of how he was as a person) is because most readers and/or audiences gravitate more towards special techniques that go on in a book, a play, a movie, etc. I think that these techniques pull the audience more into the depth of the scenes because the types of "language tricks" that Shakespeare uses makes the audience think more than just read or observe/watch. For example, in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses a metaphor, personification and a simile in Act.2 scene 3 in lines 1-3, "The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, check'ring the eastern clouds with streaks  of light; and freckled darkness like a drunkard reels..." This brings the reader into more of a clearer imagination of what Shakespeare is describing. I find it capturing. I can capture those very details and create an imagery of what Shakespeare describes.