Shakespeare’s use of dramatic methods and language

Blank Verse

• Informal language

• a verse line of ten syllables with five stresses and no rhyme 

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind 

• repetition of words or phrases in a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines. 

Soliloquy

• A long speech by one person  

• When the audience knows something but the characters don't  

• Talking out loud by yourself

Prose

• exaggerated claims not to be taken seriously 

• the witty exploitation of the meanings and ambiguities of words, especially in pun 

•  the form of speech used by common people in Shakespearean drama 

Imagery

• the repetition of an idea or picture in the images used in any pieces of writing

• A long speech by one person  

• the witty exploitation of the meanings and ambiguities of words

A monologues is a ...

Aside

• Talking out loud by yourself  

• when a character in a work of fiction addresses the audience directly for a moment to either express the truth or comment on the events of the story.  

• literary technique that consists of a repeated element that has symbolic significance to a literary work. Sometimes, a motif is a recurring image

Why is a simile used?

dramatic irony

• Make audience laugh or amused  

• A warning or an indication of a future event  

• When the audience knows something but the characters don't