Shakespeare poetic definitions

Poetic Devices used by ShakespeareAlliteration: the repetition of the first sound of several important words.- In the first summer season, we sold all our sextants.Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds in a line.- I eat peas easily.Consonance: the repetition of the final consonant sounds in a line.- The moon appears vain in the month of June.End Rhyme: the repetition of the same (or similar) sounds at the end of lines.How happy some o’er other some can be!Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.An iambic line: a line composed of iambic feet (unstressed, stressed)- Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightInternal Rhyme: the repetition of the final sounds of words within a sentence.- She ate the bread even though the baker was dead.Metaphor: an implicit (subtle) comparison between two unlike things.- Irene wilted in sorrow.Onomatopoeia: words that sound like their meaning.- Crash!Personification: the giving of human characteristics to an object, animal or idea.- Love looked on her fondly.Pun: a play on words that sound the same but that have different meanings (or oneword that has two different meanings).- Will you go hunt the hart? (heart)Repetition: the repetition of certain words.- (if the author repeats the word “fair” a lot within a few paragraphs)Reversed word: the reversing of natural word order.- “said she” instead of “she said”

Simile: an explicit comparison between two unlike things that often uses words.such as “like” or “as”- He was as dull as a doorknob.A trochaic line: a line composed of trochaic feet (stressed, unstressed)-Think but this and all is mendedReference to mythology: reference to classical Greek or Roman mythology.- I swear to thee by Cupid’s strongest bow.Reversed sentence construction: the changing of natural word order within asentence.- Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.