Writer's Techniques (OCR A-Level English Literature): Flashcards

Speech alone on stage revealing private thoughts to audience

Exists between two identities: female (Viola) & male (Cesario)

Two consecutive lines of verse that rhyme; signals closure

Similar sounds reflect tangled, complicated situation

Ordinary speech vs poetic rhythmic speech; reveals status/emotion

Regular rhythm of unstressed and stressed syllables

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit

Shows isolation; like prey hunted by pack of animals

Audience knows what characters on stage do not know

Status & title of 'Count Malvolio', not Olivia as person