What techniques are in this quote?
“Nothing will come of nothing”
Act 1
Repetition / Epanadiplosis
What techniques are in this quote?
“Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty”
Act 1
Hyperbole / tricolon
What techniques are in this quote?
“I love your majesty / According to my bond; no more no less.”
Litotes (can compare to sisters hyperbole)
What techniques are in this quote?
“Thou, Nature, art my goddess”
Act 1
Personification/metaphor (is the beginning of a soliliquy)
What techniques are in this quote?
“I am a fool; thou art nothing.”
Act 1
Paradox
What techniques are in this quote?
“I find she names my very deed of love; / Only she comes to short”
Act 1
Hyperbole
What techniques are in this quote?
“I cannot heave my heart into my mouth”
Act 1
Metaphor
What techniques are in this quote?
“The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo for so long.”
Act 1.4
Zoomorphism, parable
What techniques are in this quote?
“Sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is / To have a thankless child!”
Act 1
Zoomorphism, Sibilance
What techniques are in this quote?
“I am a man / More sinned against than sinning”
Act 2
Polyptoton, First-person self-reference
What techniques are in this quote?
“Thou art a boil, / A plague sore.”
Act 2
Metaphor
What techniques are in this quote?
“Unnatural,detested, brutish villain!”
Act 2
Asyndetic listing, unatural motif
What techniques are in this quote?
“Edgar I nothing am”
Act 2
Nothing motif, paradox
What techniques are in this quote?
“Man’s life’s as cheap as beast’s.”
Act 2
Simile
What techniques are in this quote?
“Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!”
Act 3
Personification, imperative verbs, pathetic fallacy
What techniques are in this quote?
“Out, vile jelly!”
Act 3.7
Metaphor, apostrophe
What techniques are in this quote?
“Pelican daughters”
Act 3.4
Zoomorphism
What techniques are in this quote?
“The King is mad.”
Act 3
Irony, syntax
What techniques are in this quote?
“I stumbled when I saw.”
Act 4.1
Paradox, motif of blindness
What techniques are in this quote?
“As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods.”
Act 4.1
Simile
What techniques are in this quote?
“Tigers, not daughters.”
Act 4.2
Zoomorphism, oxymoron
What techniques are in this quote?
“A man may see how this world goes with no eyes.”
Act 4
Paradox, litotes
What techniques are in this quote?
“Reason in madness”
Act 4
Oxymoron
What techniques are in this quote?
“When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this great stage of fools.”
Act 4
Extended metaphor
