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Shakespearean Figures of Speech - Coggle Diagram
Shakespearean Figures of Speech
Describe
Personification
When a object doing human action.
"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?"
— The Merchant of Venice
"The moon, with a grief as dark as her own vesture, sickened at the sight and turned her face away."
— Titus Andronicus (Adapted for clarity)
Making the setting more instense
Simile
Used to describe things saying like or as
"How like a winter hath my absence been From thee... What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!"- Sonnet 97
The hearts that spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets..."
— Antony and Cleopatra
Used to describe character
Metaphor
Used to describe things without saying like or as
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."-As you like it
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care..."
— Macbeth
Used to describe character but uhhhh.... without like or as
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Used in the Sentences
Alliteration
Repeated starting word
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes..." — Romeo and Juliet
Rhymes with F,T
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
— Macbeth
Rhymes with ble,D
Assonance
Same letter in the word repeated
"The bright day is done, and we are for the dark."
— Antony and Cleopatra
It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
— Macbeth
Irony
A sentence that makes it ironic
(The Nurse lets Romeo believe Juliet is grieving for Tybalt, when she is actually despairing over Romeo's banishment.)"O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps... And then on Romeo cries..."— Romeo and Juliet
"I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man..."
— Julius Caesar (Mark Antony says this while delivering a masterful and manipulative speech)
Anaphora
the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid
"And therefore is the wind, and therefore is the rain, and therefore are the clouds..."The Taming of the Shrew
Therefore
"Too hot, too hot! To mingle friendship far is mingling blood."
— The Winter's Tale
Hot
Used in Speech
Pun
A joke.
"Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."Romeo and Juliet
find me a grave means serious or dead
"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
— The Merchant of Venice
Mostly used to make the book more interesting
Onomatopoeia
Sound effect that cause from something
"Hark, hark! Bow-wow. The watch-dogs bark!" -The Tempest
Hark, hark! Bow-wow
"How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!"
— Hamlet
"How now
Used to make the story more fun
Oxymoron
2 Opposite word are next to each other
"Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create!"
— Romeo and Juliet
O brawling love! O loving hate!
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
— Macbeth
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
Used to make you learn more about understanding English word
Hyperbole
Over acting like it's too much
"I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall."
— Henry VI, Part 2
"I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall."
"I would die a thousand deaths to behold her smile."
— Adapted from the sentiment in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Used to describe what character saw and try to act
Allusion
Using character or thing that are on the comic or movie.
"When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun."
— Romeo and Juliet
"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York..."
— Richard III
Used to make the book more fun and need knowledge around you for you to understand
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Who is william shakespeare
English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely known as the greatest writer in the English language
Born 23 April 1564
Died 23 April 1616
For some reason he got 26 year old woman pregnant when he was 18 :skull:
For some reason i can't insert image bruh