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ShakespeareTechnique
Language techniques that Shakespeare used.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dramatic Irony | When the audience know more than the characters. |
| Oxymoron | Two words that are opposite to one another. |
| Soliloquy | When a character is speaking their thoughts out loud alone. |
| Foreshadowing | A hint or warning to the audience of what will happen at a later |
| Insults | Used by Shakespeare to demonstrate a lack of respect between characters |
| Iambic pentameter | 10 beats in a line. Five stressed (/) syllables alternate with five unstressed (X) syllables, giving a ten-syllable line. |
| Thou and You | Thou for one's close to you. You for your betters |
| Heroic (rhyming) Couplet | pair of lines of rhyming iambic pentameter (10 beats) usually found at the end of a sonnet or scene. |
| Blank verse | Lines unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| imperative verb | a command |
| Siblance | repetition of the s sound |
| Symbolism | One of or thing stands in the place of another e.g Dove for peace. |