SHAKESPEARE'S LANGUAGE

Uhrhymed lines with an arrangement of unstreed and stressed syllables known as blank verse lambic pentamter

VERSE

By aristocratic characters

In serious or dramatic senes

PROSE

By lower

Class cheracters

In comic scenes

In informal conversations

IMAGERY

Immagery from naturale

Clusters of repeated imges build up a sense of the themes

IRONY

The audience knows something that a cheracter on stage dosen't

VERBAL IRONY

Saying one thing but meating another

DRAMTIC IRONY

It is structural one line or scene contracts sharly with another

Of the play like light and drarkeness

Use metaphors and similes

Use of personification

Imagery from Elizabethan daiy like sports and hunting shipping lawje

ANTINIESIS

The contrast of direct opposites

HYPERBOLE

Extravagant and obvious exggeration

PRONOUS

Send clear social signals

THEE

Move formal and distant from

Suggests respect for a superior

Courtesy to a social equal

YOU

Implies either closeness of contempt

Friendship towards an equal

Superiorty over someone considered a social interioy

Used to adress someone of higher social rank

Came be aggressive or insulting