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| Literary devices 1. Imagery - a rather vague critical term covering those uses of language in a literary work that evoke sense-impressions by literal or figurative reference to perceptible or concrete objects, scenes, actions, or states, as distinct from the language of abstract argument or exposition. Example 1: "And when you saw you saw his chariot appear, didn�t you all shot together, so loud that the Tiber trembled underneath her banks to hear the echoes your shouts made in her curved shoreline?"Pg: 27 English side Example 2: "Truly, sir, I make all my living with the awl. But actually, sir, we�re taking a holiday to see Caesar, and to celebrate his triumphal parade." Pg: 27 English side Example 3: "See how even their low natures are moved. They vanish, tongue-tied in their guiltiness." Pg: 29 English side Couplet � a pair of rhyming verse lines usually of the same length. Example 1: "And now you put on your best clothes? And now you pick this as a holiday?" Pg: 27 English side Example 2: " Well, good Brutus, be prepared to listen. Since you know you cant see yourself except by reflection, then I�ll be tour looking glass." Pg: 35 English side Example 3: " If I were a common joker, or offered my friendship to anyone who comes along� or if you think I profess to be the friend� then consider me a dangerous man." Pg: 37 & 36 English side Metaphor- a comparison made by referring to one thing as another. Example 1: "Why, man, he bestrides the narrow world like a colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep around to find ourselves lowly graves. Example 2: " The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are under lings." Pg: 41 English side Example 3: "But I see your honorable character can be shaped into something else. There fore, it�s good that noble minds should keep with their own kind. Machinery � the collective term applied since the 18th century to the supernatural beings, gods, angels, devils, who take part in the action of an epic. Example 1: "Now in the names of all the gods at once, what food dose this Caesar eat that he is grown so great." Example 2: "Oh, you and I have heard our fathers say, there was once a man named Brutus who would as soon have tolerated the eternal devil to reign in Rome as to tolerate a king." Example 3: "But why did you tempt the heavens so? Its proper that men should fear and tremble when the most mighty gods, by these signs, send such dreadful messengers to astonish us." Pg: 57 Monologue � an extended speech uttered by one speaker, either to others or as if alone. Example 1: "If I could tell you that, I�d never look you in the face again. But those who understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads. But for my part, it was Greek to me." Example 2: "A common slave, you know him well by sight, held up his left hand, which burst into flame and burned like twenty torches together." Example 3: "this and that are the reasons� they�re all natural events." Irony - Speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says, often for the purpose of derision, mockery, jest. Example 1: "And I�ve seen the driving ocean swell and rage and foam, trying to reach the threatening clouds above. Pg: 53 Example 2: "And after this, Caesar should hold tightly to his seat, for we�ll shake him out of it, or endure worse days to come." Pg: 51 Example 3: "Marullus and Flavius are put to death for pulling scarves off Caesar�s statues. Farewell. There was more foolishness, if I could remember it." Pg: 55 Malapropism � a confused comically inaccurate use of a long word or words. Example 1: "A man no mightier than you or me, in personal action, yet grown so great and ominous, so fearful, like these strange happenings are." Pg: 57 Example 2: "And yet his hand didn�t feel the fire and remained unscorched. Besides � I haven�t put my sword away since � met a lion near the capitol." Pg: 53 Example 3: "Our fathers� minds are dead, and we�re governed by our mothers� spirits. Our tolerance of this tyranny shows us to be womanish." Pg: 59 Melodrama � a popular form of sensational drama that flourished in the 19th century theatre, serving in different forms in modern cinema and television. Example 1: "With this, you gods, you make the weak strong. With this, you gods, you defeat tyrants." Pg: 59 Example 2: "Those who want to make a mighty fire quickly should start with weak straws. What trash is Rome, What rubbish, and what garbage, when it serves as the kindling to illuminate so vile a thing as Caesar! But, oh grief, where have you led me?" Pg: 59 Example 3: "�Why, then you shall find that heaven has put these spirits in them as signs of fear and warning about this unnatural state affairs. Now I can name for you a man, Casca, who�s like this dreadful night that thunders, lightnings opens graves, and roars like the lion in the capitol. Mise en scene � the French term for the staging or visual arrangement of a dramatic production, comprising, scenery, properties, costume, lighting, and human movement. Example 1: "Those who have known that the earth is so full of faults. For my part, I�ve walked around the streets submitting myself to this perilous night. And with my robe opened, Casca as you see, I�ve bared my bosom to the thunderbolt." Pg: 55-57 Example 2: "No stone towers, or walls of beaten brass, or airless dungeons, or chains of iron can contain the strong spirit." Pg: 59 Example 3: "What a fearful night this is! There�s two or three of us who�ve seen some strange sights." Pg: 61 Analogy � Illustration of an idea by means of a more familiar idea that is similar or parallel to it in some significant features and thus said to be analogous to it. Example 1: "You�ve got a bargain. I want you to know, Casca, that I�ve already persuaded some of the noblest � minded Romans to join with me in this honorable but dangerous enterprise." Pg: 61 Example 2: "Be content. Good China, take this paper and make sure you lay it in Brutus�s chair, where he can�t help but find it." Pg: 63 Example 3: "If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius, then Cassius and not persuade Brutus. Tonight I�ll throw notes through his window in different hand writings, as if they came from different citizens." Pg: 51 |