King Lear Quotes Flashcards
Some blood
“Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion| Of my fierce endeavour,”
Foreshadowing
Dramatic irony
“These late
“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects.”
Lexical chain of nature
To both these sisters
“To both these sisters have I sworn my love, each jealous of the other as the stung are of the adder.”
Simile
Contrast
Irony
“I am a man
“I am a man| More sinned against than sinning.”
Irony
“Is man no more than this? “
Rhetorical Question regarding Poor Tom’s living conditions
But I shall
“But I shall see the winged vengeance overtake such children,”
Foreshadowing
“Lag of a brother?
“Lag of a brother? why “bastard”? Wherefore “base,”… my mind as generous and my shape as true as honest madam’s issue? Why brand they us with “base,” with “baseness,” “bastardy,” “base,” “base?”
Accumulation of rhetorical questions
Repetition of base
he hath
“he hath ever but slenderly known himself.”
Hyperbole
Rumble
“Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain! | Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters.”
Personification
I am a very foolish
“I am a very foolish, fond old man,”
Tone
“They flattered me like a dog and told me I had white hairs in my beard ere the black ones were there.”
Simile
I had rather lose
“I had rather lose the battle than that sister should loosen him and
me.”
Aside and irony
“Who is it that
“Who is it that can tell me who I
am?”
Rhetorical question
What shall Cordelia
“What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent.”
Aside, Rhetorical question
