Maguy RosenMarsnikAP English literary analysisWord countThe irony in Romeo and Juliet“Never was a story more unhappy than that of Juliet and her Romeo” “The irony is expressing what one thinks using language that normally means the opposite, usually for humorous or emphatic effect. » William Shakespeare brings you the tragic play of Romeo and Juliet, where he uses three different types of irony, verbal, situational and dramatic to depict and illustrate the love story between Romeo and Juliet. One of Shakespeare's tools for expressing irony is the use of verbal context when the writer writes one thing but means another, or uses words that are literally the opposite of what he is actually trying to say. say. Shakespeare does a wonderful job in the prologue to Act 1 which opens with "Two households, both of equal dignity, in fair Verona, where we set our scene, from an old grudge to a new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands impure. From the fatal loins of these two enemies, two lovers cursed by stars take their lives; whose pitiful reversals misadventures make with t...