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Revision: Literary and dramatic devices #1
Revision: Literary and dramatic devices #1
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'HORTENSIO: He hath the jewel of my life in hold,/his youngest daughter, beautiful Bianca'
metaphor
personification
alliteration
simile
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PET:where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail/KATE:In his tongue/PET:Whose tongue?/KATE:Yours, if you talk of tales
pun
Comdey
word play
sticthomythia
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KATHERINA: A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,/Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty'
alliteration
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
4
She's as quiet as a mouse
simile
hyperbole
personification
metaphor
5
'DOUG: Roy, you're hurting the floor./CHERRY [to JULIE]:Do-it-yourself-lobotomy'
Realism
Catharsis
Black humour
Comedy
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monologue
a speech by a single character
when the audience knows the inner mind of the character
the positioning of characters on the stage
character alone on the stage talking
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What is? An element or idea that is present throughout an entire work of literature
Motif
Symbol
metaphor
allegory
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What is? A stereotype or cliche that is common across a genre of literature
trope
metaphor
jargon
symbol
9
'The ... "blue piano" begins to drum up louder.The sound of it turns into the roar of an approaching locomotive'
musical imagery
Plastic theatre
metaphor
auditory imagery
10
'I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!'
anaphora
repetition
metaphor
epistrophe
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'PETRUCHIO: .. knock me at this gate/and rap me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate'
pun
alliteration
word play
metaphor
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PET: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,/My household-stuff, my field, my barn, my horse, my ox ..my anything
syndeton
litany
asyndetic listing
repetition
13
'TRANIO: Glad that you thus continue your resolve/To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy'
irony
alliteration
metaphor
sibilance
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'RUTH: He said it was the glue that held us together... it was the straw that broke the camel's back.'
cliche
parallellism
dramatic irony
melodrama
15
'A clatter of aluminium striking a wall is heard, followed by a man's angry roar ...
'
alliteration
plastic theatre
onomatopoeia
farce
16
'Look at these feathers and furs that she come here to preen herself in!'
metaphor
anthropromorphism
zoomorphism
alliteration
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My heart is broken.
metaphor
hyperbole
simile
personification
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'ROY: It would break, like a voice in despair shattering glass'
simile
epiphany
dramatic irony
hyperbole
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PETRUCHIO: My falcon now is sharp and passing empty/And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged
soliloquy
contrast
connotations [of royalty]
metaphor
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What is? The final stage of plot in a story where the conflict is resolved?
ending
denouement
closing
climax