Literary%20Devices%20Project

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Literary Devices Project

• By Scott Walraven
• Class 4A

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Imagery

• Imagery- Figurative description or illustration
  the formation of mental images, figures, or
  likeness of things, or of such images
  collectively. Hamlet example My lord, as I was
  sewing in my closetAs if he had been loosed out
  of hell to speak of horros, --he comes before
  me.(Act 2, Scene 1) Ned Stark is imagery of
  honor- Game of Thrones

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Simile

• A figure of speech in which two unlike things are
  explicitly compared. Hamlet example The knotted
  and combined locks to part, And each particular
  hair to stand an end, like quills upon the
  fearful porpentine(Act 1, scene 5, lines
  24-26) stone dragons on the castle walls
  seemed blurred, as if Davos were seeing them
  through a veil of tears. Pg. 111, A Clash of
  Kings

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Metaphor

• Metaphor- 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. Hamlet example Act 1, scene 5,
  lines 64-66 And in the porches of my ear did
  pour the leprous distilment, whose effect holds
  such an enmity with blood.. it is burning
  outside-it is really hot

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Personification

• Personification-The attribution of human nature
  or character to animals, inanimate objects, or
  abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical
  figure. Hamlet example For murder, though it
  have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous
  sign(Act 2, scene 2) The winds came roaring
  down from the sides of the castle and presented
  the soldiers with a deathly kiss(GOT)- A Dance
  with Dragons

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Apostrophe

• Apostrophe- A sign which is used to indicate the
  omission of one or more letters in a word,
  whether unpronounced, or pronounced. Hamlet
  example Frailty thy name is woman! (Act 1,
  Scene 2) "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of
  earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these
  butchers! / Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
  / That ever lived in the tide of times." Julius
  Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1

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Symbol

• Symbol- Something used for or regarded as
  representing something else a material object
  representing something, often something
  immaterial. Hamlet example poision-evil Upon
  my secure hour thy uncle stole with juice of
  cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of
  my ears did pour The leperous distilment(Act 1,
  Scene 5, Lines 61-64) The three dragons are
  symbols for power in a Game of Thrones

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Allegory

• Allegory- A representation of an abstract or
  spiritual meaning through concrete or material
  forms figurative treatment of one subject under
  the guise of another. The inevitable battle of
  forces in the North and forces in the South
  symbolize a dualistic nature of the world.(GOT)

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Paradox

• Paradox- Any person, thing, or situation
  exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature.
  Hamlet example I must be cruel to be kind(Act
  3, scene 4) Schrodingers cat paradox- one in
  which a cat can be an any state(dead or alive)
  until observed.

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Hyperbole

• Hyperbole- An extravagant statement or figure of
  speech not intended to be taken literally. Hamlet
  example With such dexterity to incestuous
  sheets.(Act 1, Scene 2) It felt like my blood
  was being boiled inside of me- A Clash of Kings

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Understatement

• Understatement- The act or an instance of
  understating or representing in a weak or
  restrained way that is not borne out by the
  facts. Hamlet example in context of
  paragraph--It is not nor it cannot come to good
  But break, my heart for I must hold my tongue
  (Act 1, scene 2, lines 157-158) The young wolf
  could see the battle was going well- as his army
  was crushing that of his opponents- A Clash of
  Kings

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Irony

• Irony- A technique indicating, as through
  character or plot development, an intention or
  attitude opposite to that which is actually or
  ostensibly stated. Hamlet example Though yet of
  Hamlet our dear brothers death The memory be
  green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts
  in gried, and our whole kingdom(Act 1, Scene ,
  Lines 1-3) Brienne receives what is left of the
  sword ice from the Stark family as she is on a
  quest to help the Starks- A Dance with Dragons

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Chiasmus

• Chiasmus- A reversal in the order of words in two
  otherwise parallel phrases.

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Metonymy

• Metonymy- A figure of speech that consists of the
  use of the name of one object or concept for that
  of another to which it is related, or of which it
  is a part. Hamlet example The serpent that did
  sting thy fathers life(Act 1, Scene 5) the
  Young wolf is used to refer to Rob Stark- A Storm
  of Swords

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Synecdoche

• Synecdoche- A figure of speech in which a part is
  used for the whole or the whole for a part, the
  special for the general or the general for the
  special. Hamlet example There were six guns out
  on the moor(Act 1, scene 5) Napoleon destroyed
  the left flank of the enemy with two thousand
  horse

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Repartee

• Repartee- A quick, witty reply. Hamlet example
  Why, right, you are in the right(Act 1, scene
  5, line 127) when talking to Lady Stark about
  betrayal and friends Tyrion Lannister replies
  with true friends stab you in the front A
  Storm of Swords

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Stichomythia

• Stichomythia- Dramatic dialogue characterized by
  brief exchanges between two characters, each of
  whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a
  scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.
  Hamlet example Come, come, you answer with an
  idle tongue Go, go, you question with a wicked
  tongue(Act 1, scene 4) The king frowned. My
  lady mother said it is not fittingIsnt that so,
  dog? The Hounds mouth twitched. Against this
  lot? Why Not?- A Clash of Kings

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Stock Characters

• Stock Characters- A character in literature,
  theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and
  accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no
  development by the writer. Hamlet example
  Horatio he is a static character. Tywin
  Lannister is a static character in a Game of
  Thrones

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Animal Farm

• Alliteration- The commencement of two or more
  stressed syllables of a word group either with
  the same consonant sound or ground. Hamlet
  example In equal scarle weighing delight and
  dole(Act 1, Scene 2) "May men of merit be
  motivated to act"- Animal Farm

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Assonance

• Assonance- A rhyme in which the same vowel sounds
  are used with different consonants in the
  stressed syllables of the rhyming words. Hamlet
  example O wicked wit and gifts(Act 1 scene 5,
  lines 50-51) "For the race and radiant maiden,
  whom the angels name Lenore The Raven

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Consonance

• Consonance- The correspondence of consonants,
  especially those at the end of a word, in a
  passage of prose or verse. Hamlet example Thou
  wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell.(Act 3,
  scene 4, line 38) And the silken sad uncertain
  rustling of each purple curtain- the Raven

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Rhyme

• Rhyme- A word agreeing with another in terminal
  sound. Hamlet example But I have that within
  which passeth show these but the trappings and
  the suits of woe.(Act 1, scene 2, Lines 85-86)
  Over many a quaint and curious volume of
  forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping,
  suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one
  gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.- The
  Raven

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Rhythm

• Rhythm- The effect produced in a play by the
  combination or arrangement of formal elements, as
  length of scenes, speech and description, timing,
  or recurrent themes, to create movement, tension,
  and emotional value in the development of the
  plot. Hamlet example Iambic pentameter. The
  raven has a trochaic octameter

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Meter

• Meter- Poetic measure arrangement of words in
  regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines
  or verses. Hamlet example Come, come, you
  answer with an idle tongue Go, go, you
  question with a wicked tongue(Act 1, scene 4)
  Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak
  and weary The Raven

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End-stopped line

• End-stopped line-A metrical line ending at a
  grammatical boundary or break, or with
  punctuation. A line is considered end-stopped,
  too, if it contains a complete phrase. Hamlet
  example Why seems it so particular with thee?
  (Act 1, Scene 2, Line 75) And each separate
  dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.-
  The Raven

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Run-on-line

• Run-on line- A metrical line that does not end in
  a grammatical boundary, break, or with
  punctuation. Hamlet example To reason most
  absurd, whose common theme(Act 1, Scene 2,
  line 103) Eagerly I wished the morrow vainly I
  had sought to borrow The raven

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Caesura

• Caesura- A break, especially a sense pause,
  usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in
  scansion by a double vertical line. Hamlet
  example To be,// or not to be, //that is the
  question(Act 3, scene 1) Once upon a midnight
  dreary// while I pondered// weak and weary- The
  Raven

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Free verse

• Free verse- A verse that does not follow a fixed
  metrical pattern. Hamlet example We do it
  wrong, being so majestical, to offer it the show
  of violence, for it is, as the air,
  invulnerable.(Act 1, scene 1, lines 142-145)
  She hit him. Hard, right between his little
  eyes- A clash of Kings

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Iambic Pentameter

• Iambic pentameter- A common meter in poetry
  consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or
  accents, each foot containing an unaccented
  syllable and an accented syllable. Hamlet
  example And by opposing end them? To die to
  sleep no more and by a sleep to say we end.
  (Act 3, Scene 1) Batter my heart three-personed
  God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine and
  seek to mend.- Sonnet by John Donne

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Grammatical/rhetorical pauses

• Grammatical/rhetorical pauses- A natural pause,
  unmarked by punctuation, introduced into the
  reading of a line by its phrasing and syntax.
  Hamlet example To be, or not to bethat is the
  question Whether tis nobler in the mind to
  suffer(Act 3, Scene 1) Theyre hiding by the
  pebbles, theyre running round the rocks- Sea
  Faries by Eillen Mathias

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Concluding Couplet

• Concluding couplet- Two ending lines which are a
  pair of successive lines of verse, especially a
  pair that rhyme and are of the same length. But
  I have that within which passeth show these but
  the trappings and the suits of woe.(Act 1, scene
  2, Lines 85-86) As of some one gently rapping,
  rapping at my chamber door."'Tis some visiter,"
  I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- The
  Raven