Literary Devices

We view poetry and have to accept that it does not follow ordinary rules of realism.

Brief Words allowing the audience insight into the character's mind- audience do not hear.

A smaller event is magnified in a wide context to draw out larger human truths.

Shakespeare's plays are MOSTLY written using this.

Serious, building to a climax, waste loss and power.

A character alone on stage revealing their thoughts in a speech

We love, we are jealous, we need companionship, we have sins. This is humanity

"a maid that paragons description and wild fame"

A deliberate break in a line using punctuation, creating a staccato effect.

The unfolding of the final stages of the plot

"I am not what I am"

Representing something more that itself

Beginning a scene in the middle fo the action

organising language onto rhythmical qualities

An abstract idea that covers the text as a whole

Action, Time and Place- dramatic composition "must haves"

Allocation of the due award for virtue and vice respectively

A 16th C philosopher introduced character who saught ruthless, unethical, self interested power

A feeling of "purging" according to Aristotle; a relief.

Obsession with sexual acts and bodily functions

Feelings that oppose used simultaneously

Aristotle's two foundations: Comedy and Tragedy

A revival of art and literature- reinventing the classical.

A sudden reversal of fortune, turning point

A haunting pathos song prior to death.

The implied idea, a meaning hidden beneath.

Language with evokes an emotion

"Do you know where lieutenant Cassio lied?"

A Faust legend who bargained for, and won human souls for the devil

The discrepancy between the actual and the implied.

"honest" is repeated throughout Othello.

The moment of intensity to which a series of actions have been leading

The art of persuasion, emotive language and devices

Pride, envy, gluttony, lechery, avarice, sloth wrath- punishable by hell! Used symbolically.

Overreaching human- wanting divinity, punished by Nemesis the goddess of retribution.

"For if such actions may have passage free, Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be...."

A single unit of RHYTHM in verse

The evoked feeling of pity and fear

Informal language spoken - not written

A pause, signified by punctuation at the end of lines.

Recognition of truth formerly blinded to.

"Honest Iago"