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King Lear

King Lear. L.O. Language. L.O. Language. Shakespeare’s Rhetoric Rhetoric is the art of speaking or writing persuasively. Shakespeare used rhetorical devices because they served his artistic purposes. He uses them to present characters or ideas, or to create particular effects.

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King Lear

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  1. King Lear L.O. Language

  2. L.O. Language Shakespeare’s Rhetoric Rhetoric is the art of speaking or writing persuasively. Shakespeare used rhetorical devices because they served his artistic purposes. He uses them to present characters or ideas, or to create particular effects.

  3. L.O. Language Wordplay Wordplay involves playing around with the sounds or meanings or words. It often produces puns. KENT: I cannot conceive you. GLOUCESTER: Sir, this young fellow’s mother could; whereupon she grew round-wombed, and had indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed.

  4. L.O. Language Antithesis This is the contrasting of direct opposites. In ‘King Lear’ the antithesis comes from the opposites of nature and legitimacy, justice and injustice. And in the portrayal of ‘nothing’ which comes to mean everything.

  5. L.O. Language Hyperbole This is the use of exaggeration. Lear over-dramatises in his speech about Goneril and Regan when they refuse his knights house room. He exaggerates his pain as he changes between the two daughters.

  6. L.O. Language Sound Several rhetorical techniques involve the use of sound. For example alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia.

  7. L.O. Language Parallelism Rhetorical techniques often involve some kind of repetition – of sounds, individual words or grammatical constructions. When grammatical constructions are repeated, this is known as parallelism. This device involves giving phrases or whole sentences a similar pattern or structure.

  8. L.O. Language GLOUCESTER: O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain!

  9. L.O. Language Task In ‘King Lear’ find an example of: • Wordplay • Antithesis • Hyperbole • Alliteration • paralellism Comment on the effects created by the use of these techniques

  10. L.O. Language Imagery Imagery is used to describe and appeal to the senses. More specifically is refers to language which is figurative rather than literal – so language which involves the use of similes and metaphors. An image is usually therefore a comparison.

  11. L.O. Language Images that appeal to the senses. Sight Sound Taste Touch Smell Visual image Auditory image Gustatory image Tactile image Olfactory image

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