nolan Literary Terms Imagery Imagery is an authors use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work Example A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees ID: 214738
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By Lauren nolan
Literary TermsSlide2
Imagery
Imagery is an author’s use of vivid and
descriptive language to add depth to their
work.
Example:
A host, of golden daffodils
; Beside
the lake, beneath the trees
, fluttering
and dancing in the
breeze.
c
ontinuous
as the stars that
shine and
twinkle on the Milky
Way- “Daffodils” William Wordsworth
Example in Hamlet
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, t
haw
, and resolve itself into a dew.
Act I scene iiSlide3
Simile
A simile is a comparison of two things using words such as “like” or “as”.
Example
: “
She
floats down the aisle l
ike
a pageant
queen” “Speak Now”- Taylor Swift
Example in Hamlet:
"
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their
spheres” Act II scene iiSlide4
Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.
Example: “
Love
is a
Temple” “One” by
U2
Example in Hamlet:
"This is
th
'
impostume
of much wealth and peace
, that
inward breaks and shows no cause
without why
the man dies
.” Act IV scene ivSlide5
Personification
Personification is the attribution of human nature or character to inanimate objects.
Example:
“Pocketful of sunshine” Natasha
Bedingfield
- “Pocketful of Sunshine”
Example in Hamlet:
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, i
t
spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Act IV scene iiiSlide6
Apostrophe
Apostrophe is the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically.
Example:
Tom Hanks referring to the volleyball, an inanimate object, in the movie
Castaway.
Example in Hamlet:
“Let me not think
on’t
; frailty, thy name is women” Act I scene ii Slide7
Symbol
A symbol is an action, object, or event that expresses or represents a particular idea or quality.
Example:
The green light in
The Great Gatsby
symbolizes new life.
Example in Hamlet:
Yorick’s
skull in Act V scene
i
. The skull is a symbol of death, an important motif throughout the play. Slide8
Allegory
Allegory is a
story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical
situation.
Example:
The Truman Show
is an example of allegory. Truman makes the decision to get out of the town and not be tied to their private system of merchant law.
Example in Hamlet:
The ghost in Act I represents Hamlet’s father and forces Hamlet to think about death more in depth.Slide9
Paradox
A paradox is
a statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be
true.
Example:
“Everyone can be super. And when everyone’s super…no one will be”
The
Incredibles
Example in Hamlet:
“You are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife.” Act III scene ivSlide10
Hyperbole
Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.
Example:
"It seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the
wind” "
Candle In the Wind" Elton John
Example in Hamlet
: “
O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve into a dew.” Act I scene iiSlide11
Understatement
An understatement is
the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is
.
Example: “
Cannibalism
is frowned upon in most societies
.”
'Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory’
Example in Hamlet: “
With
such dexterity to incestuous sheets
!
It is not nor it cannot come to
good” Act I scene iiSlide12
Irony
Irony is
a situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems to be the opposite of what you
expected.
Example: “
It's
like rain on your
weddin
'
day It's
a free ride when you've already
paid. It's
the good advice that you just didn't
take, And
who would've thought, it
figures” ‘Ironic’ Alanis
Morissette
Example in Hamlet:
“I am too much in the sun.” Act I scene iiSlide13
Chiasmus
Chiasmus is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a lager point.
Example
: “Don't
sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things
.”
- Jacquelyn Small
.
Example in Hamlet: “
Whether
love lead to fortune, or else fortune love
.” Act IV scene iii
“To be or not to be” Act III scene
iSlide14
Metonymy
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept.
Example:
Referring to royalty as the “crown” is an example of metonymy.
Example in Hamlet:
“I saw him enter such a house of sale.” Act II scene iiSlide15
Synecdoche
Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something to the whole of something or vice-versa.
Example:
“Our song is a slamming screen door, sneaking out late.” ‘Our Song’ Taylor Swift
Example in Hamlet:
"So the whole ear of
Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly
abused." (ear stands for Denmark
),
Act I, s
cene v,Slide16
Repartee
Repartee is a conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies.
Example in Hamlet:
“One.” “No.” “Judgment.” “A hit, a very palpable hit.” “Well again.”Slide17
Stichomythia
Stichomythia is a dialogue in which two characters speak alternate lines of verse, used as a
stylistic device in ancient Greek drama
.
Example in Hamlet:
“Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
”
“Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
” Act III scene ivSlide18
Stock Characters
A stock character is someone based on common literary or social stereotypes.
Example:
An example of a stock character is the school diva, this is Blair Waldorf in
Gossip Girl.
Example in Hamlet:
Polonius is a stock character. He represents the older man with former wisdom, and unknowingly through his failures provides comic relief. Slide19
Alliteration
Alliteration is repetition of a particular sound in the stressed syllables of a series of words or phrases.
Example:
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Example in Hamlet:
"With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous
gifts” Act I scene vSlide20
Assonance
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
Example:
"I feel the need, the need for speed
.” Top Gun
Example in Hamlet: “
For
in that sleep of death, what dreams may
come” Act I scene
iSlide21
Consonance
Consonance is the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession.
Example:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Example in Hamlet:
“Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell.
” Act III scene ivSlide22
Rhyme
Rhyme is correspondence
of sound between words or the endings of words,
especially
when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry
.
Example:
“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall”
Example in Hamlet: “
The
play's the thing
Wherein
I'll catch the conscious of the King
.”
Act II scene iiSlide23
Rhythm
Rhythm is a
strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound
.
Example:
In songs, the rhythm is the beat.
Example in Hamlet:
Hamlet is written in iambic pentameter, which gives it
rhythmSlide24
Meter
Meter is an arranged and measured rhythm in verse: rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern.
Example in Hamlet:
O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not
fix’d
His canon ’
gainst
self-slaughter! O God! O God
!” Act II scene iiSlide25
End-Stopped Line
End-stopped line is a feature in poetry in which the syntactic unit corresponds in length to the line.
Example:
“Shall
I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date
.” Sonnet 18
Example in Hamlet:
“Without the which we are pictures,
or mere beasts” Act IV scene vSlide26
Run-On Line
Run-on line is when there is no punctuation at the end of the line.
Example in Hamlet:
“Will nothing stick our person to arraign” Act IV scene vSlide27
Caesura
Caesura is a complete pause in a line of poetry or in musical composition.
Example:
To err is human; || to forgive, divine
~ Alexander Pope
Example in Hamlet:
'To Be, or Not To Be..."
Act III scene
iSlide28
Free Verse
Free verse is an open form of poetry, it does not use consistent meter patterns or rhyme or any other musical pattern.
Example:
Some kind of attraction that is neither
Animal, vegetable, nor mineral, a power not
Solar, fusion, or magnetic
And it is all in my head that
I could see into his
And find myself sitting there
. ‘Feelings Now’ Katherine Foreman
Example in Hamlet:
"Indeed this counselor / Is now most still, most secret, and most grave, / Who was in life a foolish prating
knave”
Act III, Scene
4Slide29
Iambic Pentameter
Iambic Pentameter is the particular rhythm that the words establish in that line.
Example: “
But
, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It
is the east, and Juliet is the
sun” Romeo and Juliet.
Example in Hamlet:
“How
noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust
?” Act II scene iiSlide30
Grammatical/Rhetorical Pauses
A grammatical pause is introduced by s mark of punctuation and rhetorical pauses are natural pauses.
Example in Hamlet:
“To be or not to be: that is the question: whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer” Act III scene
iSlide31
Concluding Couplet
Concluding couplet is a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse
Example in Hamlet:
“
Till
then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise
,
Though
all the earth
o'erwhelm
them, to men's eyes
.”
Act
I.ii