Devices of Sound
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes..." illustrates this device.
What is alliteration?
Prose is organized in pargraphs, while poetry is generally organized in this unit.
What are stanzas?
the speaker's attitude toward his/her subject
What is tone?
the use of sensory language to describe
What is imagery?
the voice talking to us in a poem
What is the speaker?
What is onomatopoeia?
the grouping of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
What is meter?
Depending on his audience's understanding of history, Shakespeare uses this technique to reference Julius Caesar and evoke ideas of betrayal.
What is allusion?
Hamlet illustrates this device of figurative language when he moans that Denmark is "an unweeded garden / That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely" (1.2).
What is a metaphor?
14 lines comprised of an octave & sestet
What is Italian/Petrarchan sonnet?
Technique illustrated in:
"That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
What is repetition?
a natural effect in poetry, created by its meter
What is rhythm?
Shakespeare wrote, about Romeo's "sweet sorrow" and his "brawling love, O loving hate," illustrating this device.
What is oxymoron?
Using this comparison, Claudius notes that he cannot rely on public opinion, because Hamlet is so beloved by the people of Denmark that they "Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone, / Convert his gyves to graces" (4.7).
What is a simile?
Shakespeare's sonnet's 14 lines are arranged into these units.
What is 3 quatrains and a couplet?
when two or more words within a line or verse of a poem rhyme:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,/While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,/As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door./'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door;/Only this, and nothing more.'"
What is internal rhyme?
A stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary, such as a phrase or clause.
What is a caesura?
When a writer brings together contrasting and contradictory elements that reveal a deeper truth, this device is illustrated.
What is a paradox?
Planning the play within the play, Hamlet uses this device when he claims, "murder, though it have no tongue will speak.”
What is personification?
What is a dramatic monologue?
features repeated vowel sounds in words that are close to each other: "Who knows why the cold wind blows,/Or what is knows, or where it goes..."
What is assonance?
The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation; the opposite of end-stopped.
What is enjambment?
Most poets employ paradox to achieve this tone.
What is ironic/irony?
Using this technique, Hamlet spoke to Yorick's skull while the poet John Donne told Death not to be proud.
What is apostrophe?
Shakespeare's go-to, this line of writing consists of ten syllables in a specific pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?