This is the process by which artists make us see old things in a new and more interesting or thought-provoking way.
Defamiliarization
100
"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind" (I.i.240)
Personification
100
“Your eyes are lodestars” (I.i.78).
Metaphor
100
"Not Hermia, but Helena I love. / Who will not change a raven for a dove?" (II.ii.120-1).
Hermia - raven / Helena - dove
100
"For, ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved, and show'rs of oaths did melt." (I.i.248-51).
pun
200
This is the use of language imaginatively rather than literally.
Figurative Language
200
“sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow’s eye, / Steal me awhile from mine own company” (AMND III.ii. 564-5).
Personification
200
"Momentany as a sound, swift as a shadow, short as any dream" (I.i.145-6).
Simile
200
"the jaws of darkness do devour [love] up" (I.i.150)
darkness vs. a wild animal
200
"O, that you frowns would teach my smiles such skill!" (I.i.200)
personification
300
When an author compares two things that aren't very similar, it is called this.
Metaphor or a simile
300
"to that place the sharp Athenian law / Cannot pursue us” (I.i.164-5).
Personification
300
"I wooed thee with my sword" (I.i.17).
Symbol
300
"For you, in my respect, are all the world" (II.i.231).
Demetrius - the world
300
"That will ask for some tears in the true performing of it. If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes. I will move storms!" (I.ii.23-5)
hyperbole // OR // metaphor
400
This is a recurring object, symbol, theme, etc, in a story.
Motif
400
"I am your Spaniel, and, Demetrius, / The more you beat me I will fawn on you" (II.i.210-11).
Metaphor
400
“Belike for want of rain, which I could well / Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes” (I.i.132-3).
Metaphor
400
“If there were a sympathy in choice [of whom to love], / War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it” (I.i.143-4).
War/death/sickness - army // OR // love - warfare
400
"I am as ugly as a bear" (II.ii.100).
hyperbole, simile
500
This is when an author plays on the multiple meanings of a word, often for humorous effect.
Pun
500
"how slow / this old moon wanes" (I.i.3-4)
"the moon, like to a silver bow" (I.i.9)
"chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon" (I.i.75)
"when Phoebe doth behold / Her silver visage in the wat'ry glass" (I.i.214-5)
Symbol or Motif
500
"Two bosoms interchained with an oath -- / So then two bosoms and a single troth. / Then by your side no bed-room me deny, / For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie" (II.ii.55-8).
Pun
500
"as a surfeit of the sweetest things / the deepest loathing to the stomach brings / […] / So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, / Of all be hated, but the most of me!" (II.ii.144-9).
Hermia vs. the upset feeling you get when you eat too much sugar
500
"Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell.
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purpose with love's wound,
And maidens call it 'love-in-idleness'" (II.i.171-4).