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Title: Literature Terms
Description: Learn Major Literature Terms with amazing examples!!! You will thank me later after you learn these with such simplicity!!!
Description: Learn Major Literature Terms with amazing examples!!! You will thank me later after you learn these with such simplicity!!!
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Dialogue: Conversation between two or more characters
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Example 1
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Hail to your lordship!
Hamlet
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Horatio
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Hamlet
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Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
Dumbledore: I'm afraid so, Professor
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McGonagall: And the boy?
Dumbledore: Hagrid is bringing him
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Example 1: The marriage of Claudius and Gertrude is just an occurring event that is a part of a
larger sequence within the play Hamlet
Example 2: Chapters from a novel book is another good example of episode because they are
events that occur throughout the novel
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Usually, the part that is used to reference the entire matter is especially
relevant to one particular nature of the matter that is intended to stand out
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Tis given out, that sleeping in my orchard / A serpent stung me: so the whole ear of
Denmark/ Is by a forged process of my death - Ghost (Act 1 scene 5 lines 36~38,
Hamlet)
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Unlike synecdoche, the use of metonymy does not involve a hierarchy of
part and entirety, but more of pure association
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark - Marcellus (Act 1 scene 4 line 90, Hamlet)
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy judgement - Polonius (Act1 Scene 3, line 68,
Hamlet)
Euphemism
Euphemism is a figure of speech by which a harsh or unpleasant matter is described by a more
mild and indirect expression
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- Hamlet ( Act 3 scene 1, line 60~62, Hamlet)
"Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes” - Winston Churchill
Figurative Language: Language that writers utilize in creating images in readers’ minds and
express ideas in a clear and vivid manner
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We see these in Shakespeare Hamlet
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to engage the readers and audiences
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We learn that he is a
"scholar
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‘Tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart
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The crisis influences the
outcome of the story and is viewed as the turning point
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Romeo and Juliet - Tybalt kills Mercutio which leads to Romeo later killing Tybalt
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Ex
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The escape of Fleance and murder of Banquo have people
suspecting Macbeth is the murderer
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Ex
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Ex
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O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is
not nor it cannot come to good”
When Hamlet releases his anger on his mother for marrying his uncle so soon after the death of
his father, he explains that “it cannot come to good,” meaning that the whole situation of his
father’s death cannot come to good, an understatement considering how terrible the situation is
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Ex
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Stating that it is very late and cold, gives the reader a sense that the mood is very
dark, setting the stage for the play which is a tragedy
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"Here it is, for your enjoyment and instruction
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it is my pleasure and honour to present to you: THE PI
PATEL, INDO-CANADIAN, TRANS-PACIFIC, FLOATING CIRCUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSS!”
In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Martel uses a very informal and humorous tones at times to
characterise Pi as innocent and optimistic person, despite finding himself stranded in the ocean
and the death of his parents
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Can
sometimes correlate directly with the denotative meaning
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-“’Tis given out, that sleeping in my orchard a serpent stung me” [I
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35]
Exaggeration: A group of words set to overemphasize something for better or worse [could be
true]
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iv
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ii
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But there is
always a higher power that set things in the right direction
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The fearful passage of their death-marked love
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove [
Romeo and Juliet; Prologue]
Star-crossed lovers [going against the stars], death-marked love (doomed from the beginning)
Works Cited
http://web
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edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_c
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chegg
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britannica
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com/3962217/figurative-language-definitionsexamplespictures-flash-cards/
http://literarydevices
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net/understatement/
http://www
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com/dictionary/dialogue
http://www
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com/life-of-pi/tone
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eng
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edu
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htm
http://literarydevices
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merriam-webster
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wordreference
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php?t=1873660
http://www
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com/for/hamlet-hyperboles/
http://www
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com/nonfiction/academic/article/339617/Examples-of-Fate-in-Romeo-andJuliet/
http://www
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com/forum/threads/63609-fate-vs-destiny
http://www
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com/dictionary/synecdoche
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emory
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Ghost
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merriam-webster
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goodreads
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reference
Title: Literature Terms
Description: Learn Major Literature Terms with amazing examples!!! You will thank me later after you learn these with such simplicity!!!
Description: Learn Major Literature Terms with amazing examples!!! You will thank me later after you learn these with such simplicity!!!