"The Seven Ages of Man" by William Shakespeare

The poet compares the world to stages to demonstrate

• how big the world is

• how a stage can be used like the world

• how life is like a performance with us being the actors

• how actors are similar to people’s lives

The poem compares "exits” to

• leaving the stage

• passing on or death

• exiting through a door

• closing curtains

In the second stage of life, man

• mewls and pukes
• goes to school unwillingly
• cries in his nurses lap
• sings and plays

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As a young lover, according to the poet, man 

• learns to dance
• composes ballads for his beloved
• goes hunting in the forest
• does exercises to build his muscles

The poet describes man as a soldier in the

• 3rd stage

• 4th stage

• 6th stage

• 10th stage

In the 5th stage of life, man is described as

• the lover

• the soldier

• the judge/justice

• a senile man

The 7th stage of man is also described as

• infancy

• childhood

• second childhood

• adulthood

"Creeping like a snail" is an example of 

• metaphor
• alliteration
• personification
• simile

The poem, "The Seven Ages of Man", is written by

• William Wordsworth

• William Shakespeare

• William Golding

• Alfred Hitchcock

"All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely ________".

• puppets
• actors
• players
• dummies

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