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Shakespearean Figures of Speech - Coggle Diagram
Shakespearean Figures of Speech
Onomatopoeia: A word that sounds like the thing it describes.
"sighs" (Romeo and Juliet)
This quote describes a deep breath that shows sadness and worries.
"Roaring" (Romeo and Juliet)
This quote describes the sea.
"Groaned" (Romeo and Juliet)
This quote describes Romeo’s love for Rosaline.
Simile: Comparing something or someone with different thing by using 'like' or 'as'.
"Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards" (Othello)
This quote is about his jealousy that eats him up from inside, just like poison that slowly destroys the body.
This quote the word "like" to compare the feeling of jealousy to poisonous that slowly destroys the body.
"The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures" (Macbeth)
This quote is to make Macbeth calm after he kills King Duncan. It means people who are sleep or dead cannot harm anyone.
This quote is Simile because the word "as" compares sleep and death to picture.
"So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows" (Romeo and Juliet)
This quote means Juliet looks beautiful like a white dove.
This quote is a simile because it compares Juliet to a white dove.
Personification: Giving human action or quality to non-living thing.
“The sun doth rise, and make happy the morn.” (Romeo and Juliet)
This quote is Personification because the sun can't make anyone happy.
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!” (King Lear)
This quote is Personification because the wind can't rage like human and crack their cheeks.
“The wind did sing in every grove.” (The Tempest)
This quote is Personification because The wind can't sing and the word sing is human action.
Alliteration: A sentence that uses the first same letter or same sound like two or more times.
“Deep-drenched in doomsday.” (Henry VI, Part 3)
This quote is Alliteration because it repeated D sound two or more times.
This quote means he is full of trouble and bad things.
“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought…” (Sonnet 30)
This quote is Alliteration because it repeated S sound two or more times.
“With bloody blameful blade he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.” (Romeo and Juliet)
This repeated B sound two or more times is this is Alliteration.
This quote means he used his sword to stop the man in the chest.
Oxymoron: A phrase that uses two opposite words.
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”(Romeo and Juliet)
This quote is Oxymoron because the word sweet and sorrow are opposite.
The meaning of this quote is saying goodbye is sad, but sometimes it is a little happy.
“I must be cruel only to be kind.” (Hamlet)
This quote is Oxymoron because the word cruel and kind which are opposite.
This quote means sometimes I have to strict to help someone at the end.
“O brawling love! O loving hate!” (Romeo and Juliet)
This quote means sometimes love and hate get mixed up, and it is confusing.
The word love and hate are the opposite words so this quote is Oxymoron.
Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds
“The rain it raineth every day.” (Twelfth Night)
This quote is Assonance because the r sound.
This quote means that life is full of problems and troubles. It falls again and again just like rain which keeps falling down.
“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.” (Julius Caesar)
This quote is assonance because the o sound.
This quote means start a big fight and let the soldiers attack.
“If music be the food of love, play on.” (Twelfth Night)
This quote is Assonance because the o sound.
The meaning of this quote is that he compares music with food, saying he wants more of it because he feels strong emotion.
Hyperbole: Uses words that makes something sound much bigger.
“I do love thee more than words can wield the matter.” (Romeo and Juliet)
The meaning of this quote is that my love for you is greater than this world.
This quote is Hyperbole because he exaggerates his love to make it sound stronger.
“I am a feather for each wind that blows.” (Hamlet)
This quote is Hyperbole because its exaggerates how weak and easily moved he feels.
This quote means I change easily and go wherever people or events push me.
“I will not eat my word.” (Much Ado About Nothing)
This is Hyperbole because no one can really eat this word ,so it sounds like a strong exaggeration of feeling.
The meaning of this quote is to keep promise and not break it.
Metaphor: Comparing something or someone with different thing by not using 'like' or 'as'.
“The world is a great stage of fools.”(King Lear)
This quote means many people in the world act foolishly.
This is Metaphor because it compares world to a stage.
“He is a lion in battle.”(Henry IV)
This quote means he is very brave and strong in battle.
This quote is a Metaphor because it compares a person to a lion.
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” (Romeo and Juliet)
This quote is about love which is full of pain,sadness, and longing.
This is Metaphor because it compares love to a smoke.
Pun: A joke that plays with words.
“Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.” (Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio))
This quote is pun because of the word grave which has two definition.
The definition of this quote means if you look for me tomorrow, I will be dead.
“I am too sore enpearced with his shaft" (Romeo and Juliet (Romeo))
This quote is pun because the words "sore" and "shaft".
This quote means love hurt me too much.
“A little more than kin, and less than kind.” (Hamlet)
The meaning of this quote is that you are too much family to me, and you are not nice.
The word 'kind', which has two definitions, so this is pun.
Irony: Saying something opposite of what you really means.
“Methinks I see my father.” (Hamlet (Act I, Scene IV))
This is Irony because hamlet thinks he sees his father, but it is not exactly what he thinks.
The meaning of this quote is he believes he sees the ghost of his father, but he is not completely sure if it is real.
“I am one who loved not wisely but too well.” (Othello (Act V, Scene II))
This quote is Irony because he says he loved her, but his love caused a tragedy instead.
The meaning of this quote is I loved her too much and made a big mistake.
“O, I am fortune’s fool!” (Romeo and Juliet (Act III, Scene I))
This is Irony because he says it’s bad luck, but really it’s his own fault.
This quote means he thinks bad luck made this happen, but it was really his own choice that caused Tybalt to die.
Allusion: talking about a person, story, or event that people already know without explaining it.
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” (Macbeth (Act V, Scene I))
This quote means Lady Macbeth thinks she has blood on her hands. She feels very guilty for killing King Duncan and wants to get rid of the guilt, but she cannot.
This is an allusion because she talks about blood to show guilt, which people already understand.
“Full fathom five thy father lies.” (The Tempest (Act I, Scene II))
This quote is Allusion because it talks about a man under the sea, referring to old sea stories people know.
The definition of this quote is your father is dead under the sea.
“He was a man of wax.” (Henry VIII)
This is an allusion because it talks about wax statues, which people thought were perfectly shaped and beautiful.
The meaning of this quote is he looked perfect and handsome, like a wax statue.
Anaphora: Repeating words at the start of sentences to make point or sound strong.
"And we poor men’s lives, their wit in scorn
And all our woes to their delight..." (Sonnet 66)
This quote is Anaphora because 'and' that repeated.
"You all did love him once, not without cause. What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason." Julius Caesar (Act III, Scene I)
This quote is Anaphora because the word 'You all' and 'What' are repeated at the start.
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time..." (Macbeth reflecting on life)
This quote is Anaphora because the repetition of the word tomorrow.