Figures of Speech

Question 0

Simile

Answer 0

Comparison using like or as between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common
EX. “Wears out his time, much like his master’s ass…’
comparing servants to donkeys to show the unfair treatment of servants. act, 1 scene 1,line 44 iago

Question 1

Figures of speech

Answer 1

• imaginative words that create a picture in your head

- comparative words/sentences

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

-Comparison without using like or as
-An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common
EX. “the pride of a peacock is the glory of god” the marriage of heaven and hell, Jonathan Swift,line 22
-often blurs with a symbol
the peacock is beautiful but ….

Question 3

Symbols in metaphors

Answer 3

• symbols are like metaphors on steroids

- often has many meanings

Question 4

Personification

Answer 4

the human/alive description of informative objects
-An inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities
-makes abstract meanings concrete (no five senses)
EX. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Ulysses. “for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.” line 59-61
stars are taking baths, in the ocean. human trait
time is abstract (no weight, smell, touch)
-Time flies
-People say time is like a thief, but time is an embezzler that does it in the books.”

Question 5

Metonymy

Answer 5

-used in rhetoric
-thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept
Ex. even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe. iago 1.1.85-86 old black ram meaning othello
Lord Voldemort / He who shall not be named
“Detroit is still hard at work on an SUV that runs on rain forest trees and panda blood.”-Conain O’brian

Question 6

Synecdoche

Answer 6

• Part of something is often used for the while, as when people refer to “head” of cattle or assistants are referred to as “hands”
• A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (ABC’s for the alphabet) or the whole for a part (England won the world cup in 1966)
  ex. what a full fortune does the thick-lips owe if he can carry’t thus! 1.1.63 roderigo. using thick lips to refer to othello saying othello is lucky if he can pull this off

Question 7

Litotes

Answer 7

-ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its opposite.
_derived from a greek word meaning “plain and simple”
EX. I am not what I am 1.1.62

Question 8

Hyperbole

Answer 8

-a form of irony
-exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement.
-opposite of litotes
EX. At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the 16th century.

Question 9

Oxymoron

Answer 9

-A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side
EX. -brabantio; malicious bravery act 1
o heavy ignorance! act 2 desdemona
excellent wretch! othello 3.3.90
a small vice act 4 Emilia
o notable strumpet act 5.1.76 Iago