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Shakespeare
Literary Techniques
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables |
| Allusion | a literary reference to a well-known work of art, music, history or literature |
| Blank Verse | non-rhyming poetry, usually written in iambic pentameter |
| Comic Relief | in a tragedy, a break in the seriousness for a moment of comedy or silliness |
| Double Entendre | a word or phrase with more than one meaning, usually when the second meaning is risque |
| Dramatic Irony | when the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know |
| Euphemism | a substitution of a more pleasant expression for one whose meaning may come across as rude or offensive |
| Figurative Language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
| Foreshadowing | hints of events to occur later in a story |
| iamb | a unit in poetry consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| iambic pentameter | a 10-syllable line divided into 5 iambic feet (one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable) |
| imagery | language which works to evoke images in your mind |
| irony | a contradiction between what is expected and what actually is- or appearance versus reality |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is replaced by another, often indicating a likeness or similarity between them |
| Oxymoron | when two opposite terms are used together |
| Personification | attributing human characteristics to non-human objects |
| Prose | normal speech rhythm |
| Pun | a play on words, especially those that sound alike, but have different meanings |
| Rhyming Couplet | two rhyming lines at the end of a speech, signaling that a character is leaving the stage or that the scene is ending |
| Simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as |
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