INTR SHAKESPEARE

Alliteration

The repetition of speech sounds in a sequence of nearby words; these are most often consonants and only when the sounds are emphatic because of a beginning stressed syllable. “Bravely Broached his Boiling Bloody Breast”.

Allusion

A reference to something outside the text (history, literature, culture) that carries meaning.

Anaphora

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of lines, sentences, or clauses.
Example: “So long… / So long…”

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
Example: “The Thane of Fife had a wife” (short “i” sound)

Chiasmus

A reversal in the structure of two phrases.
Example: “Heaven of hell, a hell of Heaven”

Consonance

Repition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words, with different vowels “Pitter Patter”

Couplet

Two lines of verse that rhyme and are eqaul in length

End-Stopped Line

A line where the sentence or clause ends at the line break (with punctuation)

Enjambment

A sentence or clause continues past the end of a line into the next line (run on line)

Extended metaphor (Allegory)

A comparison that contunues over multiple lines or thorughout a work

Metaphor

A direct comparison between two unlike things without using “Like” or “as”

Metonymy

Replacing something with a word closely associated with it

Onomatopoeia

A word that imitates the sound it represents

Oxymoron

Two contradictory words placed together 

Paradox

A statement that seems contradictory buy may be true

Personification

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things or abstract ideas

Prolepsis

Presenting a future event as if it has already happened

Repittion

Repeating words or phrases for emphasis, unity, or power

Similie

Comparison using like or as

Synecdoche

Using a part to represent the whole or the whole to represent the part