Fast Pace

"Repetition becomes a prominent figure in Shakespeare's late style generally, and The Tempest in particular derives much of its poetic power from phonetic, lexical, and syntactial reiteration" (McDonald 101).

There were a lot of quick, back and forth conversations in The Tempest. The occured so often and so quickly that they gave the play a really fast pace. Despite how short some of the lines were in these quick conversations, alot of them were packed with lots of important details. I did notice the repetition that occurred throughout the play, however I wasn't really sure of its importance. This play was just so much more fast moving than some of his other works.

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