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Shakespeare Devices
Sonnet Devices
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of the same initial consonant sound throughout a line of verse "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought...." |
| anadiplosis | the repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next "My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain." |
| anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses "Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!" |
| anthimeria | substitution of one part of speech for another "I'll unhair thy head." |
| antithesis | juxtaposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." |
| assonance | repetition or similarity of the same internal vowel sound in words of close proximity "Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks." |
| asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words "Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?" |
| chiasmus | two corresponding pairs arranged in a parallel inverse order "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" |
| diacope | repetition broken up by one or more intervening words "Put out the light, and then put out the light." |
| ellipsis | omission of one or more words, which are assumed by the listener or reader "And he to England shall along with you." |
| epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause "Blood hath bought blood, and blows have answer'd blows." |
| epimone | frequent repetition of a phrase or question; dwelling on a point "Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him I have offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any speak; for him have I offended." |
| epistrophe | epetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses "I'll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond." |
| hyperbaton | altering word order, or separation of words that belong together, for emphasis "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." |
| malapropism | a confused use of words in which an appropriate word is replaced by one with similar sound but inappropriate meaning "I do lean upon justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good honor two notorious benefactors." "Are they not malefactors?" |
| metaphor | implied comparison between two unlike things achieved through the figurative use of words "Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York." |
| metonymy | substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is meant (e.g., "crown" for royalty) "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." |
| onomatopoeia | use of words to imitate natural sounds "There be moe wasps that buzz about his nose." |
| paralepsis | emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it "Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it. It is not meet you know how Caesar lov'd you." |
| parallelism/parallel structure | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses3 "And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determinèd to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days." |
| parenthesis | insertion of some word or clause in a position that interrupts the normal flow of the sentence "...our names,Familiar in his mouth as household words— Harry the King Exeter,...and Talbot...and Gloucester— Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered." |
| polysyndeton | the repetition of conjunctions in a series of coordinate words, phrases, or clauses4 "If there be cords, or knives, Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, I'll not endure it." |
| simile | an explicit comparison between two things using "like" or "as" "My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease" |
| synecdoche | the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part5 "Take thy face hence." |
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MrsTilton
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