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Simile

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Used as a literary device to assert similarity with the help of ‘like’ and ‘as’

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between too non similar things

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Personification

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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

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Symbolism

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A word, object, action, character, concept that embodies and evokes a range of additional meaning and significance

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Dramatic Irony

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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

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Soliloquies

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Dramatic monologues or soliloquies to create dramatic tension and inner thoughts/motivations of the character directly to the audience

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Malapropism

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Purposeful use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word, which results in humor and confusion e.g. Elbow

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Foils

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Literary device to illustrate traits, values or motivations of one characters through the comparison of another character

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Tragic Flaws

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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

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Form

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Focus on style, length, structure or tone of a piece

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Metre

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Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines. Verse can identify the meter as counting variation of stress vs unstressed syllables

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Blank Verse

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Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter, high class characters speak in blank verse

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Heroic Couplet

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End of lines that are rhymed, used at end of significant development in plot and emphasizes importance.

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Prose

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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

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Iambic Pentameter

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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

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Antimetabole

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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’

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Parallelism

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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’

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Euphemism

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The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant.

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Foreshadowing

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Be a warning or indication of (a future event).

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Semantic Field

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A lexical set of semantically related items, e.g. death and dying honorably