Literary Techniques Shakespeare

2 rhyming lines at the end of a speech; signal a scene ending or a character leaving the stage.

a literary reference to a well-known work of art, music, history, or literature.

a substitution of a more pleasant expression for one whose meaning may be rude or offensive.

when the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know.

normal speech; written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

attributing human characteristics to non-human objects or living things.

a unit in poetry consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

a figure of speech comparing two unlike things (like or as).

in a tragedy, a break in the seriousness for a moment of comedy or silliness.

hints of events to occur later in a story

a 10 syllable line, the basic rhythm of Shakespeare's verse.

when two opposite terms are used together.

a word or phrase with more than one meaning, usually when the second meaning is risqué.

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is replaced by another, often a comparison.

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables.

language which evokes images in your mind

non-rhyming poetry, usually written in iambic pentameter. Close 2 normal speech/patterns/rhythm

not meant to be taken literally such as; metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, etc

play on words, especially those that sound alike, but have different meanings.

a contradiction between what is expected and what actually is - appearance vs reality.