vivid expression of feelings. “If music be the food of love, play on’
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Melodramatic
emotional and far fetched. ‘Sir Topas - Out, hyperbolical fiend!’
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Biblical
religious in tone. ‘Sir Topas - Fie, thou dishonest Satan!’
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Titles
ways of addressing others. ‘Sir, wench, shrew, Madonna, Count, fellow’
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Word play
deliberately manipulating the meanings of words. ‘Feste - The lady bade take away the fool. Therefore, I say again, take her away.’
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Superlative
the ‘most’ something. ‘Viola - Most sweet lady’
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Caesura -
the point at which a line can be divided (. , ; :) ‘Viola - No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs of malice I swear, I am not that I play.’
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Rhyming couplets -
often used to conclude a speech/scene. ‘Viola - yet, a bagful strife! Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.’
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Juxtaposition
- two things placed alongside each other to emphasise the contrast. ‘Olivia - Where lies your text? Viola - In Orsino’s bosom.’; ‘Olivia - Why, what would you? Viola - Make me a willow cabin at your gate’
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Oxymoron
- combining two contradictory expressions in one phrase. ‘Feste - Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes’
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Bathos
when a climax is built up to using more and more impressive phrases but then is undermined by something of less importance. ‘Viola - Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty - I pray you, tell me if this be the lady of the house’
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Questions
to clarify, challenge, mock. ‘Toby to Andrew - What dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in?’; ‘Toby to Malvolio - Art any more than a steward?’
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Modal verbs
conditional verbs with varying degrees of confidence. ‘Malvolio - I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby’
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Imperatives
commands or entreaties. ‘Orsino - Be not denied access, stand at her doors’
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You/thou
you is used to someone of higher status; thou is used to someone of lower status. ‘Viola to the Captain - ‘I’ll pay thee bounteously, Conceal me what I am’. ‘Captain to Viola - ‘Be you his ******, and your mute I’ll be’
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Apostrophe - O -
outpouring of emotion. ‘Orsino - O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother’
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Epithet
adjective describing a characteristic quality of a person or thing. ‘Good Madonna, sweet lady’
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Imagery
simile, metaphor, personification. ‘Toby of Andrew - He’s as tall as any’s in Illyria’. ‘Orsino - I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul.’. ‘Toby - let them [boots] hang themselves in their own straps.’
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Semantic field of…
group of words connected by meaning.
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Ambiguity
when a statement is open to two interpretations. ‘Feste - I live by the church’. ‘Toby - Confine! I’ll confine myself no finer than I am’
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Triadic structure
rule of three. ‘Viola - even such and so In favour was my brother, and he went Still win this fashion, colour, ornament’
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Hyperbole - exaggeration
Ol - How does he love me? V - With adorations, fertile tears, with groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.’
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Allusion
eference to a character from mythology. ‘Dian’s lip is not more smooth and rubious.’
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
emotional and far fetched. ‘Sir Topas - Out, hyperbolical fiend!’
Back
Melodramatic
Card 3
Front
religious in tone. ‘Sir Topas - Fie, thou dishonest Satan!’
Back
Card 4
Front
ways of addressing others. ‘Sir, wench, shrew, Madonna, Count, fellow’
Back
Card 5
Front
deliberately manipulating the meanings of words. ‘Feste - The lady bade take away the fool. Therefore, I say again, take her away.’
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