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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
REVIEW
Shakespeare Style
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
 Impactful (words that have an effect) words that go beyond
the literal meanings of the words to give the readers new
insights and allow them and to make connections.
Metaphors, similes, puns, hyperbole,
personification, foreshadow, oxymoron
METAPHOR
An implied (suggested) comparison
 O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
 Sunshine and rain at once; her smiles and tears…
 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more
lovely and more temperate...
SIMILE
A comparison using like, as or than
 They are as gentle as zephyrs, blowing below the violet…
 My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun…
PUN
A play on words, or playing with the sound of words to achieve
particular effects. Make you laugh, make you think, increase clarity
when we’re trying to understand the meaning of a text.
 Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut
off ? He's all right now.
 Did you hear about the guy who got hit in the head with a
can of soda? He was lucky it was a soft drink.
SHAKESPEARE’S PUNS
 (after being stabbed) “tomorrow … you shall find me a grave
man.”
 (a shoe maker explains his job) “A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use
with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, a mender of bad soles.”
HYPERBOLE
Exaggeration for the sake of emphasizing or highlighting something
important
 “A coward dies a thousand times, a valiant man but once.”
 “If I profane with my unworthiest hand…” ( If I offend you it will
be the worst thing I could do!)
PERSONIFICATION
Giving human qualities to non-human things
 “You need to cross over at the mouth of the river.”
 ‘Time flies and waits for no one…”
 Ten thousand (daffodils) saw I at a glance, / Tossing their heads in sprightly
dance. / The waves beside them danced; but they / Out-did the sparkling waves
in glee - "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
FORESHADOW
 Warning of a future event. Sometimes foreshadowing is used to
build anticipation and tension throughout the story.
 Someone tell me an example from THE ALCHEMIST. THE
ODYSSEY?
OXYMORON
 Oxymoron – two contradicting or opposite words brought
together to create a new concept or idea
(all from Shakespeare)
 You must be cruel to be kind
 With fearful bravery…
 I am slain by a fair cruel maid…
 My bad angel…