Shakespeare's Rhetoric Quiz
Shakespeare's Rhetoric Vocabulary
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- Aside
- A comment or short speech by one character to the audience or to another character which, by convention, is not heard by the other characters on stage
- Adage
- A pithy or short saying very much like a proverb or aphorism
- Anaphora
- The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses, lines, or sentences
- Ethos
- The character of the speaker
- Chiasmus
- The sequence of two or more phrases in the first part of a sentence or line of poetry is reversed in the second half
- Consonance
- Repetition of final consonant sounds in successive or nearby words in which the vowel sounds are different.
- Alliteration
- The repetition of the same initial sounds (usually consonants) in successive or nearby words.
- Logos
- The structure of the ideas presented
- Pathos
- Appeals to the emotions of the audience
- Antistrophe
- The repetition of words at the end of successive clauses, lines, or sentences
- Assonance
- Repetition of vowel sounds in successive or nearby words
- Caesura
- A pause in a line of verse or prose