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Shakespearean Figures of Speech - Coggle Diagram
Shakespearean Figures of Speech
Onomatopoeia
Diffinition : A word that sounds like the thing it describes.
"Hark Hark Bow-wow."
Metaphor
Definition: Makes a comparison without using comparison words.
"...It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
Juliet is a person he is not the sun
Oxymoron
Definition : A phrase that contrasts two opposites, often in an ironic way, where perhaps both things are true.
"O brawling love O loving hatte"
Personification
Definition : Given something humman quanlities to describe it.
"The winds did sing"
Simile
“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, / Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be…” (Juliet)
This is a simile because it uses 'like; to compare something to lightning.
Definition: Makes a comparison, using 'like' or 'as something as.'
Irony
Definition : a literary device in which the intended meaning of words or actions is different from — often opposite to — their literal meaning or expectations.
"Ay, and wisely too."
Hyperbole
"I'love you more than all the world."
Definition : An exaggeration (with or without imagery)
Alliteration
Definition : A sentence that uses words that start with the same letter or sound at least two or three times in close succession
"Full fathom five thy father lies."
Assonance
Definition : A literary device in which the same vowel sound is repeated in nearby words, creating rhythm, mood, or musicality in a phrase or sentence.
"The rain it raineth every day."
Anaphora
Definition : A literary device in which a word or group of words is repeated at the beginning of successive lines, clauses, or sentences.
"Mad world Mad King Mad composition"
Pun
Definition : A pun is a form of wordplay that uses words with multiple meanings or similar-sounding words to create humor or a witty effect.
"Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man."
Allusion
Definition : A literary device in which a writer indirectly refers to a person, place, event, or work without explicitly naming it.
"She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow."