Pun | “Hunting the hart…my heart that’s being hunted” |
Rhyme | “Away before me to sweet beds of flowers/Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers” |
Malapropism | “Accost, Sir Andrew, accost” |
Aside | “(aside) Yet a barful strife – Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.” |
Time (of year) | “A good Lenten answer” “Let summer bear it out” |
Personification | “She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair” |
Synecdoche | “methought her eyes had lost her tongue” |
Apostrophe | “O, time thou must untangle this, not I” |
Simile | “But let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek” |
Allusion | “Thy Fates open their hands” |
Oxymoron | “The Fortunate Unhappy” |
Situational Irony | the Fool is the most intelligent, while the people in power look the most foolish |
Soliloquy | Sebastian’s lines in Act IV, Scene 3 describing his situation with Olivia |
Twelfth Night Literary Devices and Examples
July 22, 2019