Literary Devices by Reet Kasepalu https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1 we are so good at them! en-us 2017-02-14 12:16:18 UTC 2025-11-24 17:06:00 UTC hello@padlet.com reetkasepalu https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153679865 Group 1 Katariina and Robin
Allusion
Epanalepsis

Group 2  Marion and Roos
Anaphora
Double Entendre

Group 3  Belinda and Liisa
Personification
Simile
Black Humour

Group 4  Joonas and Eva
Antithesis
Metaphor

Group 5  Õnnely and Stina
Oxymoron
Alliteration
  
Group 6  Ramses and Andrea
Conversion
Anadiplosis

Group 7 Novella
Epistrophe
Satire



]]> 2017-02-14 12:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153679865 Group 3 https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153691710 Personification
"For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog,..." (act 2, scene 2)

Simile
"That swift as quicksilver it courses through the natural gates and alleys of the body" (act 1, scene 5)

Black humour
Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service—two dishes, but to one table. That’s the end. (act4, scene 3) ]]> 2017-02-14 13:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153691710 Group 1 https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153691939 Epanalepsis -- repetition of a word or a phrase, with intervening words setting off the  repetition;
EX: To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;To sleep:

Allusion -- an indirect or passing reference;
EX: O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou! Hamlet to Polonius (act 2, scene  2) ]]> 2017-02-14 13:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153691939 Group 4 https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153692158 Antithesis – Antithesis, literal meaning opposite, is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

"To be, or not to be"

Metaphor – An expression, often found in literature, that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person or objet.

"The undiscovered country" referring to death
]]> 2017-02-14 13:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153692158 PARADOXParadox is a seemingly logical but contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true; self-contradictory.e.g. I always lie.1) I must be cruel, only to be kind: (by Hamlet in Act 3, scene 4) reetkasepalu https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153692190 2017-02-14 13:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153692190 Group 7 https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153692527 Epistrophe
the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, sentences or clauses
Ex: If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is it to leave betimes?
(Act 5 Scene 2)

Satire
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice in literature

Ex: used in Hamlet to make fun of people he does not like:  When Polonius spies on him in Act 2 Scene 2 Hamlet uses satire against him, calling him a fishmonger, and making the point indirectly that Polonius isn't honest

]]> 2017-02-14 13:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153692527 Group 2 https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153692670 Anaphora - repetition in the beginning of lines
No trophy ...
No noble rite...
Double entendre - word pun ]]> 2017-02-14 13:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153692670 Group 6 https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153692684 Conversion - A noun is used as a verb
Example: From 1984: Unperson - dead.

Anadiplosis - Form of repetition. The next clause starts with the same word as the previous one ended.
Example: To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. (Act 3, scene 1)]]> 2017-02-14 13:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153692684 Group 5 https://padlet.com/reetkasepalu/literarydevices1/wish/153693212 Oxymoron is a contradictory pair of words for example "the living dead" - act 1 scene 2 Claudius' dialogue "with mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage"

Act I, Scene 5: "With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts"
Alliteration- a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase

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