Author(s)

Liu Ruiqi ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Suzhou City University, Suzhou, China

Corresponding Author

Liu Ruiqi

ABSTRACT

This essay puts more focus on the use of copia in analyzing different characters in Love's Labor's Lost to manifest the importance the rhetoric device used to present the purpose of the author and the revelation of that historical period. Through analyzing the different rhetoric devices used for the male and female characters in the play, the use of copia can make both the male and female characters more vivid and ignite greater associations with the roles and the relations during that historical period. Meanwhile, this can also provoke the thoughts of the readers with more resonance. The copia discussed in this essay render the ideas of traditional male dominating ideas and the revolutionary thoughts of female during that historical period. The use of amplification and other rhetoric devices make the conversations become enriched and worthwhile more investigations for the implied meanings.

KEYWORDS

Copia, expression, male and female characters, rhetoric devices

CITE THIS PAPER

Liu Ruiqi, Analysis of the Use of Copia in Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 30-36. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060905.

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