- Hyperbole is extensive in Goneril's speech (lines 55-61).
- There is also examples of congeries in the same speech, and also in the speech of Cordelia (lines 95-98), and the speech of Kent (lines 140-143).
- Repetition in the word "nothing" (lines 87-90).
- Metonomy in lines 91-92 with "heave my heart into my mouth" standing in for "speak what I am feeling," line 9 "tongue" standing in for "what I can speak"
- There is a feature in Cordelia's speech (lines 96-98) where she speaks her father's duties to her and her duties to her father. These are given in parallel list form with her father's duties as _____me, and the daughter's duties listed as ______you.
- Line 106: "so young, and so untender", followed by line 107: "so young, my lord, and true."
- Religious oath: lines 109-116.
- Personification in lines 147 and 148: duty = Kent, power = Lear.
- More examples of praise, metaphor, metonymy, oath of loyalty, accusation, auxesis, eptithet--see you in class.
Evie
You have a good eye for details. I wish I could have given you more feedback sooner, but it took a while to get your posts on the website, and then we would make responses together in class, so I did not always make written comments here in the blog posts. You have made good progress.
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