Romeo and Juliet

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How does Shakespeare use the dramatic devices in act 3 scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet in order to make it such an interesting, exciting and important scene?

Romeo and Juliet is about two star crossed lovers who fall in love with each other. But they are both from different rival families, and they are torn on what to do so they decide to get married but at the end of the story it ends in tragedy. The play fits into the tragedy genre because the story ends with the death of the two main characters and through out the story several other characters are murdered which adds to the story being in the tragedy genre. In the play there are various themes like love, hate, fate, destiny and revenge, love and hate are the main themes of the story. The play was written by William Shakespeare who was a very famous play writer back in the 16th century during the renaissance which was a cultural change. The renaissance was a cultural change in Dance, Warfare, Architecture, Music, Philosophy, Literature Science, Technology and Painting. William Shakespeare based the play on a poem called "The Tragic history of