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Question:please provide act, scene, and line(s).

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"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"
--Romeo And Juliet Act 2, scene 2

Juliet laments her misfortune that Romeo is a Montague – the son of her father's enemy.

Note that in this line Shakespeare uses apostrophe: a literary device in which the speaker addresses someone absent or dead or an inanimate object.

At this point in the scene Juliet is at her window overlooking the garden, talking to herself, unaware that Romeo is listening in the shadows. She is talking to an absent person, so it is a perfect example of an apostrophe.

Hopefully this is what you were looking for. (=

I know there is a part where Juliet talks to Romeo when she is talking to her maid, I think it's in Act III. Then I am pretty sure that Romeo talks to Rosaline at the beginning of Act 1 (maybe scene 2 or 3) I hope this helped