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A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare employs various literary devices to enhance the play's comedic and poetic elements. In Act 1, Scene 1, Helena uses personification and imagery to discuss...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare employs various stylistic devices to enhance character speeches. Oberon's speech in Act 4 uses alliteration, assonance, iambic pentameter, similes, and...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a paradox is found in Bottom's line, "You were best to call them generally, man by man," which contradicts itself by suggesting to call people both...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

The funniest part of "Pyramus and Thisbe" in A Midsummer Night's Dream is its over-the-top performance. The Prologue's exaggerated alliteration and description, such as a man playing a wall, adds to...

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