![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif) |
|
|
Literary Devices |
|
|
Paradox: A Paradox consists of two statements expressing an apparent contradiction.� A paradox challenges deeper thought on the matter. |
|
|
|
Ex:� 1.2: Hamlet: A little more than kin, and less than kind. |
|
|
|
3.2: Ophelia: Still better, and worse. |
|
|
|
3.3: King: My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. |
|
|
|
����� Simile:� This is the simplest and most commonly used literary device.� By use of words as or like a similarity of one thing to another is expressed. |
|
|
|
Ex:� 1.1: Hamlet:� In my minds eye, Horatio. |
|
|
|
4.2: Hamlet:� Compounded, it with dust, whereto tis kin.���� |
|
|
|
4.2: Rosencratz: Do you regard me as a sponge? |
|
|
|
����� Sarcasm:� involves a cutting humor in which the user may actually say they |
|
|
Actually say the opposite of what he means. |
|
|
|
Ex: 3.2: Hamlet: Lady, Shall I lie in your lap? |
|
|
|
3.2: Hamlet: I mean, my head upon your lap. |
|
|
|
3.2: Hamlet: Thats a fair thought to lie between maids legs. |
|
|
|
����� Metaphor: is an abridged simile.� It is a comparison omitting comparative words |
|
|
|
Like as or like. |
|
|
|
Ex: 1.1: Marcellus: It is like the air: you cannot hurt it. |
|
|
|
1.3: Polonius: You speak like a green girl, unsifted in such perilous circumstances. |
|
|
|
3.2: Hamlet: Methink it is like a weasel. |
|
|
|
Symbol: is a representation.� It is something that stands for or suggests something |
|
Else. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ex: 1.4: Hamlet: My fate cries out and makes each petty artery in this body, as hardy as the Nemean lions nerve. |
|
|
|
4.3: Hamlet: A man can go fishing with the worm that fed off a king, and then eat the fish that ate that worm. |
|
|
|
���� Personification: give a non-living object human qualities. |
|
|
Ex: 1.3: Hamlet: The air bites shrewdly, its very cold. |
|
|
|
5.2: Hamlet: The point envenomed too! |
|
|
|
Hyperbole:� is an evident exaggeration for the sake of emphasis. |
|
|
|
Ex: 3.2: Ophelia: You are as good as a chorus. |
|
|
|
3.4: Hamlet: A bloody deed.� Almost as bad, good mother, as kill and marry with his brother. |
|
|
|
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/hrules/Generic/yellow_back.gif) |
|
|
|
![](http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/buttons/Generic/back2.gif) |
|