Shakespeare Lit Terms

a speech in which the character speaks his/her

thoughts aloud to the audience

• Allusion

• Aside

• Soliloquy

• Pun

what actually happens is different from what we expect to happen

• Situational Irony

• Couplet

• Dramatic Irony

• Foil

a comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Monologue

• Personification

when a person says one thing and means the opposite

• Situational Irony

• Monologue

• Oxymoron

• Verbal Irony

a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings

• Oxymoron

• Couplet

• Soliloquy

• Verbal Irony

word play that can suggest two or more meanings

• Foreshadowing

• Pun

• Soliloquy

• Oxymoron

giving human characteristics to something that is not human

• Aside

• Dramatic Irony

• Foil

• Personification

A long speech

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Couplet

• Aside

clues that point to a future event

• Foil

• Simile

• Dramatic Irony

• Foreshadowing

a comparison saying one thing is another thing

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion