What Does Twelfth Night Mean

Meter: is the rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables heard in literature

EXAMPLE: Twelfth Night by William Shakespiare

If music be the food of love , play on ;

Give me excess of it , that, surfeiting ,

The appetite May sicken , and so die .

That strain again! it had a dying fall :

O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound ,

That breathes upon a bank of violets

Stanza: different fragments that make up a poem or a song. Often these parts are organized in the same way and consist of the same number of verses.

Example:

The Way You Look At Me

(First stanza)

The way you look at me makes my heart beat

With your look my day turn to perfect

(Second stanza)

You and your eyes make the best of my life

I can be lost on a forever with

The sobs, screams and a ghostly ragged breathing that soul, dead and unhappy, could be heard from the far room as if they were just one step away from the door.

Hyperbole: It is a literary device in which the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and give more emphasis.

EXAMPLE: William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, Act II, Scene II,

“Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather

The multitudinous seas incarnadine,

Making the green one red.”

Alliteration: Alliteration is a literary method in which the words are used as rapid sequence, and begins with letters belonging to the same group sound.

EXAMPLE:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Metaphor: application of a concept or an expression of an idea or an object that does not describe directly, intending to suggest a comparison with another item that make easier to understand. In poetry is very beneficial.

EXAMPLE: Those two emeralds which had as eyes were shining in His

Example: Night’s Dawn Trilogy written by Peter F. Hamilton;

“I’ve always been a massive admirer of the Edenist ability to understate. But I think defining a chunk of land fifteen kilometers across that suddenly takes flight and wanders off into another dimension as a little problem is possibly the best example yet.”

Onomatopoeia: describing a sound or copying a sound.

Example: (For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway)

“He saw nothing and heard nothing but he could feel his heart pounding and then he heard theclack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.”

Oxymoron: two words with different meanings liking together which one is a noun and the other and adverb.

Example: “Romeo and Juliet”, Act I, Scene I, written by William Shakespeare.

“Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!

O anything, of nothing first create!

O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!

Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!

This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

Dost thou not