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Figures of Speech in Shakespearean Language Tarta 23 / 352 - Coggle…
Figures of Speech in Shakespearean Language Tarta 23 / 352
Assonance
Look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold from The Merchant of Venice
Meaning: the sky is full of stars
How it works: long o make the line flow smoothly
O Romeo Romeo from Romeo and Juliet
Meaning: she call with love and sadness
How it works: o sound adds emotion
Blow blow thou winter wind from As You Like It
Meaning: the wind is cruel and cold
How it works: ow sound give a sad tone
Personification
Grief fills the room up of my absent child from King John
Meaning: sadness is everywhere
How it works: gives grief human power to fills space
Time’s thievish progress from The Rape of Lucrece
Meaning: time steals beauty and youth
How it works: gives time the action of stealing like thief
The night’s candles are burnt out from Romeo and Juliet
Meaning: the stars fade away
How it works: give stars the action of burning out like candles
Methaphor
Juliet is the sun from Romeo and Juliet
Meaning: Juliet give light and warmth to his life
How it works: makes her the sun to show importance and love
The world’s mine oyster from The Merry Wives of Windsor
Meaning: he can do anything he want
How it works: the metaphor shows freedom and opportunity
All the world’s a stage from As You Like It
Meaning: life is like a play
How it works: compare the world to a stage where people act roles
Anaphora
O that this too too solid flesh would melt from Hamlet
Meaning: he feel hopeless
How it works: repeating too shows strong sadness
Hear me for my cause and be silent that you may hear from Julius Caesar
Meaning: he wants people to listens
How it works: repeating hear give rhythm and power
By heaven I’ll love thee still by heaven I swear it true from Othello
Meaning: he swear his love is real
How it works: repeating by heaven give emotion and truth
Onomatopoeia
Drum drum Macbeth doth come from Macbeth
Meaning: soldier are coming
How it works: drum copies real sound
Hark the lark at heaven’s gate sings from Cymbeline
Meaning: listen to the bird singing
How it works: hark sound like a call to listen
Buzzing of bees from The Rape of Lucrece
Meaning: bees is flying around
How it works: buzzing copy the bee sound
Irony
Macbeth thinks he is safe but he dies from Macbeth
Meaning: he trust the prophecy too much
How it works: shows false hope and fate
Romeo thinks Juliet is dead but she is alive from Romeo and Juliet
Meaning: the audience know she is not dead
How it works: dramatic irony creates sadness
Et tu Brute from Julius Caesar
Meaning: Caesar is shock his friend betrayed him
How it works: betray create strong irony
Oxymoron
Parting is such sweet sorrow from Romeo and Juliet
Meaning: saying goodbye is sad but sweet
How it works: shows love and sadness at once
Damned saint honourable villain from Othello
Meaning: someone seems good but actually bad.
How it works: write opposites to show betrayal
O loving hate from Romeo and Juliet
Meaning: love and hate mix together
How it works: write opposite to show confusion
Simile
I am as merry as the day is long from Much Ado About Nothing
Meaning: he feels very happy
How it works: the word as compares his joy to a long, happy day
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear from Romeo and Juliet
Meaning: Juliet stands out and shines beautifully
How it works: uses like to show how bright and special she is
She looks as clear as morning roses newly washed from King Henry VIII
Meaning: she is fresh and beautiful
How it works: compares her to clean roses show purity.
Pun
Now is the winter of our discontent from Richard III
Meaning: sadness is ending like winter
How it works: plays with word winter to mean both as season and sadness
You have dancing shoes with nimble soles I have a soul of lead from Romeo and Juliet
Meaning: he feels too sad to dance
How it works: plays with sole and soul sound
Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man from Romeo and Juliet
Meaning: he joke about dying
How it works: grave mean seriousness and dead
Alliteration
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes from Romeo and Juliet
Meaning: two enemy families bring tragedy
How it works: repeating f add strength and rhythm
Barefoot brother broods from Measure for Measure
Meaning: the man think deeply
How it works: b sound gives soft and slow rhythm
Full fathom five thy father lies from The Tempest
Meaning: his father lies deep under the sea
How it works: the f sound make it sound musical
Hyperbole
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand from Macbet
Meaning: his love never end
How it works: impossible image shows strong love
I would not marry her though she were endowed with all that Adam had from The Taming of the Shrew
Meaning: he refuse to marry her
How it works: exaggeration shows strong rejection
I will love thee till the seas run dry from Sonnet 18 inspired
Meaning: his love never end
How it works: impossible image shows strong love
Allusion
You are as wise as Nestor from Troilus and Cressida
Meaning: he is very wise
How it works: refer to a wise man in Greek myth
Till Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane from Macbeth
Meaning: a strange predictions
How it works: refers to nature move as a sign
Borrow Cupid’s wings from Romeo and Juliet
Meaning: he want love’s power
How it works: refer to the god of love