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Literary Terms

Literary Terms. Audrey Odom. Imagery. Visually descriptive or figurative language “paints a picture” of the scene in your head. Hamlet: O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! (Act I, Scene ii, Lines 129-130) Imagery in Music

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Literary Terms

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  1. Literary Terms Audrey Odom

  2. Imagery • Visually descriptive or figurative language • “paints a picture” of the scene in your head. • Hamlet: • O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!(Act I, Scene ii, Lines 129-130) • Imagery in Music • “Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies”-The Beatles “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”

  3. Simile • The comparison of two very different things using “like” or “as” • Hamlet: • Pale as his shirt(Act II, Scene i, Line 81) • Simile in music • “Telephone wires above are sizzling like a snare”-Lana Del Rey “Summertime Sadness”

  4. Metaphor • A word or phrase used to refer two things to show that they are similar • Hamlet: • To die, to sleep–To sleep, perchance to dream(Act III, Scene i, Lines 64-65) • Metaphor in Movie Title • “Gone with the Wind”

  5. Personification • Giving human characteristics/actions to something nonhuman. • Hamlet: • But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.(Act I, Scene i, Lines 166-167) • Personification in Movies • “Ted”

  6. Apostrophe • The addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically • Hamlet: • Let me not think on’t: frailty, thy name is women(Act I, Scene ii, Line 146) • Apostrophe in Poetry • O Captain! My Captain!-Walt Whitman

  7. Symbol • A thing/theme that represents something else with a deeper meaning • Hamlet: Poison • Poison is a symbol of disloyalty and corruption and death • Upon my secure hour thy uncle stoleWith juice of cursed hebenon in a vialAnd in the porches of my ears did pourThe leperous distilment(Act I, Scene v, Lines 61-64) • Symbols in Movies: • Luke Skywalker wear black throughout the return of the Jedi symbolizing the possibility of him turning to the dark side.

  8. Allegory • A story or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, an allusion to another meaning • Hamlet: • O heart, lose not thy nature. Let not everThe soul of Nero enter this firm bosom.(Act III, Scene ii, Lines 376-377) • Hamlet is referring to Nero, who killed his mother, prior to when Hamlet is going to visit Gertrude. He hopes not to kill her. • Allegory in Books: • Animal Farm by George Orwell • The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

  9. Paradox • A statement that says two opposite things contradict each other, but both are true • Hamlet: • I must be cruel, only to be kind(Act III, Scene iv, Line 178)

  10. Hyperbole • Exaggerated statements not to be taken literally • Hamlet: • With such deterity to incestuous sheets! (Act I, Scene ii, Line 159) • Hyperboles in Music • “You Ain’tNothin But a Hound Dog” -Elvis Presley

  11. Understatement • The presentation of something being smaller or less important than it actually is. • Hamlet: • It is not nor it cannot come to good.But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.(Act I, Scene ii, Lines 158-159) • Understatement in Music • “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”-R.E.M.

  12. Irony • The use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think. Can be used for humor and drama. • Hamlet: (Dramatic Irony) • Get thee to a nunnery.(Act III, Scene 1, Line 121) • Irony in Movies • “50 First Dates”Adam Sandler doesn’t want a long lasting relationship until he meets a girl with short term memory

  13. Chiasmus • An inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases • Hamlet: • King: Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.Queen: Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz.(Act II, Scene ii, Lines 33-34)

  14. Metonymy • Substitution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant • Hamlet • …To die, to sleepNo more, and by a sleep to say we end(Act III, Scene I, Lines 60-61) • Metonymy in Books • “Her voice is filled with money”-F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”

  15. Synecdoche • A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole • Hamlet: • O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!(Act I, Scene ii, Lines 129-130) • Synecdoche in daily phrase: • “All hands on deck!”

  16. Repartee • Conversation characterized by quick, witty comments • Hamlet: • Hamlet: Well, God-a-mercyPolonius: Do you know me, my lord?Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.Polonius: Not I, my lord.Hamlet: Then I would you were so honest a man.Polonius: Honest, my lord!(Act II, Scene ii, Lines 171-176)

  17. Stichomythia • Dialogue in which two characters speak alternate lines of verse • Hamlet: • Laertes: Where is my father? Claudius: DeadGertrude: But not by him(Act IV, Scene 5, Line 28)

  18. Stock Characters • Character who is normally one-dimensional but sometimes stock personalities are deeply conflicted, rounded characters. • Hamlet: Polonius • Polonius is a stock character because he has former wisdom but still provides comic relief. • Stock Characters in TV: • Normally a guest star that appears for one episode is considered a stock character

  19. Alliteration • The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words • Hamlet: • With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts(Act I, Scene v, Line 43) • Alliteration in Real Life: • Dunkin Donuts

  20. Assonance • Repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be noticeable • Hamlet: • Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;(Act II, Scene ii, Lines 115-116) • Assonance in Music • “I’m a mess in a dress”-Orianthi “According to You”

  21. Consonance • Recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables • Hamlet: • No more, and by a sleep to say we end(Act III, Scene I, Line 61) • Consonance in Music • “Whisper word of wisdom, let it be”-The Beatles “Let it Be”

  22. Rhyme • Correspondence of sound between words • Hamlet: • …The plays the thingWherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.(Act II, Scene ii, Lines 591-592) • Rhyme in Music • “Hope that you fall in love and it hurts so bad,the only way you can know is give it all that you have”-One Republic “I Lived”

  23. Rhythm • A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound • Hamlet: • The rhythm in Hamlet corresponds to iambic pentameter • Rhythm in Music • All music has some sort of rhythm in it, the drums or the bass guitar usually provides the rhythm

  24. Meter • Arranged and measured rhythm in verse • Hamlet: • When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause: there’s the respect

  25. End-Stopped Line • A line that ends with a definite punctuation mark (period/colon). • Hamlet: • Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. (Act II, Scene ii, Line 143)

  26. Run-On Line • When the natural pause in reading does not coincide with the end of a line, the speaker continues without pause • Hamlet • O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my motherlooks, and my father died within’s two hours.(Act III, Scene ii, Lines 118-120)

  27. Caesura • A break between words within a metrical foot. • Hamlet: • To be, or not to be, that is the question • (Act III, Scene i, Line 56)

  28. Free Verse • Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter • Hamlet: • The common people in this era would speak in free verse as opposed to the higher class, who would speak in prose • Example of Free Verse in Poetry • “Winter Poem” by Nikki Giovanni

  29. Iambic Pentameter • A line that has ten syllables in each line, but the alternate syllable is stressed • Hamlet: • To be, or not to be: that is the question. (Act III, Scene I, Line 56) • Iambic Pentameter in Other Literature: • Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,Who is already sick and pale with grief,-Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  30. Grammatical/Rhetorical Pauses • Grammatical- A pause introduced by a mark of punctuation • Rhetorical- A natural pause not marked by punctuation • Hamlet: • But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,(Act II, Scene ii, Line 535) • Grammatical Pause in Music: • “It takes two, two sides to every story”-Katy Perry “It Takes Two”

  31. Concluding Couplet • Two successive lines that are rhymed and have the same meter • Hamlet: • Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.(Act I, Scene 2, Lines 257-258) • Concluding Couplet in Poetry • “If this be error and upon me proved,I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”-Shakespeare Sonnet 116

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