“The Taming of the Shrew” By William Shakespeare Honors 2/ Mrs. Thaler—Pre-AP Literary Devices: TYPE YOUR ASSIGNMENT. A) Define the following literary devices/terms. B) Then, locate and list an example (a specific quoted line) from the play, The Taming of the Shrew to illustrate the device used. Cite the Act, Scene, Line (I, ii, 12-14) C) Every device has a purpose. Analyze its purpose. Why is the device used? What does it do or accomplish? 1) Allusion 2) Anaphora 3) Aside 4) Asyndeton 5) Blank Verse 6) Dramatic Monologue 7) Dramatic Irony 8) Epigram 9) Farce 10) Foil 11) The Fool 12) Frame Tale 13) Heroic Couplet 14) Hyperbole 15) Iambic Pentameter 16) Imagery (animal) 17) Induction 18) Metaphor 19) Metonomy (or Metonymy) 20) Pun 21) Rhetorical Question 22) Satire 23) Shakespearean Insult 24) Simile 25) Style 26) Tone Literary Devices in The Taming of the Shrew 1) Allusion: A figure of speech that make a reference to a specific famous, well-known person, place, event, or literary work directly or indirectly 2) Anaphora: the use of the same word or phrase at the beginning of several successive clauses, sentences, lines, or verses, usually for emphasis or rhetorical effect. "She didn't speak. She didn't stand. She didn't even look up when we came in" is an example of anaphora. 3) Aside: a remark made by an actor, usually to the audience, that the other characters on stage supposedly cannot hear 4) Asyndeton: the omission of conjunctions in sentence constructions in which they would usually be used. 5) Blank Verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter 6) Dramatic Monologue: dramatic speech of a lone character directly to the reader or to the listener. 7) Dramatic Irony: a situation, or irony arising from a situation where the audience knows more about what is happening than a character in the story does. 8) Epigram: a concise, witty, and often paradoxical remark or saying 9) Farce: style of comic drama in which authority, order, and morality are at risk and ordinary people are caught up in extraordinary events 10) Foil: a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. 11) The Fool: Literature is filled with fools and tricksters. It’s a stock character. Down through literary history, the fools have provided comic relief. 12) Frame Tale: a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story 13) Heroic Couplet: a couplet of rhyming iambic pentameter 14) Hyperbole: the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression 15) Iambic Pentameter: is defined by its rhythm of pairing ten syllables for each line into five pairs of unstressed/stressed syllables 16) Imagery (animal)—language that forms mental images and appeals to the five senses, as it refers to animals. 17) Induction: an introductory and explanatory scene or other intrusion that stands outside and apart from the main action with the intent to comment on it, moralize about the play 18) Metaphor a figure of speech, comparison saying one thing is another for a point of comparison. 19) Metonomy (or Metonymy) is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. Like the White House, or Hollywood. 20) Pun is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words . 21) Rhetorical Question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point and without the expectation of a reply 22) Satire the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice , folly, 23) Shakespearean Insult: Thou villainous common-kissing puttock! 24) Simile: A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like" or "as" 25) Style 26) Tone