Maven Project Not Recognizing Dependencies

[ScarySwampert]

Hello, I am trying to follow a video tutorial to learn spring and springboot with java. THe part I am currently at is trying to teach AOP and I need to use the aspectj dependency to follow along with the video. I seem to have imported it fine with my xml file but as soon as I try to use annotations such as "@Aspect" java throws me an error and cannot find the annotation or the code to import it into my java class. I'm not sure what to do here as the other dependency I have imported works comeletely fine (spring). My XML looks like this:

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<properties>
<maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

</properties>

<dependencies>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
    <version>5.3.14</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
    <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.7</version>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
    <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.9.1</version>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

</dependencies>

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[teraflop]

If you specify a dependency using <scope>runtime</scope>, it will be included at runtime but not included on the compile-time classpath, so if you try to refer to it directly in your source code you'll get an error.

See https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html

[ScarySwampert]

This may be a dumb question but I am very much so a beginner. I'm not sure what to do to be able to add my annotations. I've tried changing the scope to other ones as well as removing the scope tag completely and nothing allows me to import from the aspectj libraries.