Simile
Used as a literary device to assert similarity with the help of ‘like’ and ‘as’
Metaphor
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between too non similar things
Personification
A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if was human
Symbolism
A word, object, action, character, concept that embodies and evokes a range of additional meaning and significance
Dramatic Irony
Plot device used to create situations in which the audience knows more about the situation, the causes of conflicts and their resolutions before the characters
Soliloquies
Dramatic monologues or soliloquies to create dramatic tension and inner thoughts/motivations of the character directly to the audience
Malapropism
Purposeful use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word, which results in humor and confusion e.g. Elbow
Foils
Literary device to illustrate traits, values or motivations of one characters through the comparison of another character
Tragic Flaws
Literary device that represents a flaw in a character that results in the downfall of the hero e.g. Angelo being the downfall of Isabella
Form
Focus on style, length, structure or tone of a piece
Metre
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines. Verse can identify the meter as counting variation of stress vs unstressed syllables
Blank Verse
Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter, high class characters speak in blank verse
Heroic Couplet
End of lines that are rhymed, used at end of significant development in plot and emphasizes importance.
Prose
Common form of writing, flows in a natural pattern of everyday speech. Characters in lower status speak in prose e.g. Pompey, Abhorson and Provost
Iambic Pentameter
Rhyming pattern comprising of 5 iambs in each line like five heartbeats
Iamb- unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllable
Pent means five and meter means to measure
Antimetabole
One phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause reverse order in clasue ‘When i would pray and think, i think and pray’
Parallelism
Balance put together. The matching of the forms of words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence. e.g. ‘Easy come, easy go’ ‘I have hope to live and am prepar’d to die’
Euphemism
The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant.
Foreshadowing
Be a warning or indication of (a future event).
Semantic Field
A lexical set of semantically related items, e.g. death and dying honorably
