Figurative Language in The Tempest

“Your tale, Sir, would cure deafness”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

“The music crept by me upon the waters, allaying both their fury and my passion”

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Personification

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

“The winds sing it to me, and the thunder, that deep and dreadful organ-pipe pronnounce’d the name of Prospero; it did base my trespass”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

“Do that good mischief which may make this island thine own forever”

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Personification

“My library was dukedom large enough”

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Personification

“What’s past is Prologue”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Paradox