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Dramatic Irony is used when Bianca and her father do not know about the reality of Cambio and why he intends to be the tutor of Bianca. However, the audience and some other characters know the reality. In dramatic irony, the audience’s knowledge is more than the characters themselves. Kate’s speech, in the last act, preaching how to be submissive towards their husband is also full of irony. The audience knows the situation in which she has to pass through, and internally she is not convinced of what she says

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Conflict: The major conflict in the play occurs between Katherine and Petruchio. He wants to tame this unruly lady at all costs. This is a hard task for him to accomplish. She resists a lot in the beginning but with the passage of time surrenders to the efforts of Petruchio. This conflict represents  the prevailing ideas of male dominance and female weakness in society

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Conflict: The major conflict in the play occurs between Katherine and Petruchio. He wants to tame this unruly lady at all costs. This is a hard task for him to accomplish. She resists a lot in the beginning but with the passage of time surrenders to the efforts of Petruchio. This conflict represents  the prevailing ideas of male dominance and female weakness in society

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Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in a line of prose or poetry. The following lines are examples of assonance.

So I to her, and so she yields to me. ( Act-II, Scene-1, Line, 129)
ii. She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat. (Act-IV, Scene-I, Line, 133)

In the first example, the vowel sound /o/ is repeated four times.

Moreover, the sound /i/ is repeated in the words ‘she’, ‘yields’, and ‘me’. In the second example, the sound /i/ is repeated making the lines musical.

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Some people believe that Kate might be the antagonist of this play, as she demonstrates villainous and difficult  behavior in the beginning of the play. However, the character of Kate is not powerful enough to make her an antagonist of the whole play. We can assume Petruchio as an antagonist too. As he manipulates and mentally tortures Kate to tame her.
Though some argue there is no antagonist

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Petruchio chased Kate throughout the house. He kept telling her that he will marry her and she will become his wife.

On their wedding day petruchio shows up drunk and acts a fool

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Petruchio says Kate looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.
Act 2, Scene 1

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The play alludes to historical and mythologica  figures
Like Minerva - roman goddess - and Athena - Greek goddess

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The 'taming' is used ironically to fit both the comedic side of the play and the themes the play is trying to convey

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One example of metaphor in The Taming of the Shrew is when Petruchio draws comparisons between falconry and the way he treats his new wife, Katherine. In these metaphors, Katherine is a lot like the falcons, which are stubborn but also valuable.

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One example of metaphor in The Taming of the Shrew is when Petruchio draws comparisons between falconry and the way he treats his new wife, Katherine. In these metaphors, Katherine is a lot like the falcons, which are stubborn but also valuable.

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"Fiddler, forbear, you grow too foward" Act 3: 1

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"The Hunt" as example of women being 'hunted' as objects of desire to own

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The fouler fortune mine, and there an end.
Act 5 scene 2 line 97

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“I did but tell her she mistook her frets.”
“Frets, call you these? . . . I’ll fume.”
Frets as in guitar frets, and frets as in fretting or stressing about something
— Hortensio (2.1.149-152)

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Metaphor
“My falcon now is sharp and passing empty” - He is referring to Kate.

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"She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat"
Act IV - scene 1, Line 133

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" 'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you,
'Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas."

Tranio uses a metaphor comparing the unmarried Katherina to a perishable commodity whose value declines with time. He further says that if this marriage doesn't work she'll be as worthless as a ship's cargo lost at sea.

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Katherine the Curst (1. 2.101)
Thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour (4.1.145)

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Petruchio compared the idea of Katherine's singing to the voice of a nightingale

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"...therefore paucas pallabris, let the world slide."
Induction:1 line 6

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And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humor (Act 5 scene 1 line 145

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Falconry is used as a symbol for Petruchio's methodology for "taming" Katherine

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Allegory: the play is a story within a story and contains many hidden meanings and the text can have different interpretations 

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Allegory: the play is a story within a story and contains many hidden meanings and the text can have different interpretations 

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Lucentio wants to acquire Bianca as an object - this speaks to the way women were viewed at that time. He “must” have her (i.i / 152)

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Gremio in the taming of the shrew was made to represent a pantaloon (Which was stereotypically a man who was old, foolish and oblivious to the things going on around him). A character like this at the time would have been added purely for laughs, as pantaloons were joke characters.

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A hat is when a character is written to fulfill a stereotype and in this case gramio is written as a stereotype of the rich upper class of the time

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Act1 Scene2
Pun
Grumio knocks (punches) Pretutio  rather than knocking on the door