Figurative Language Shakespeare

giving inanimate objects or animals human characteristics

• simile

• pun

• malaproprism

• symbolism

• personification

Orsino: Why, so I do, the noblest that I have: O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence! That instant was I turn'd into a hart;
This is an example of

• personification

• simile

• prose

• metaphor

This is an example of:

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• verse

"Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit / with Cupid's arrow, she hath Dian's wit;" is an example of _________.

• metaphor

• simile

• paradox

• allusion

a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing

• Dramatic Irony

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Situational Irony

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances." - William Shakespeare

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day," -William Shakespeare, "Sonnet18"

• idiom

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor in Shakespeare's works?

• A) "Juliet is the sun."

• B) "As gentle as a lamb."

• C) "The wind whispered through the trees."

• D) "He roared like a lion."

In Shakespeare's plays, what is the term for giving human traits to non-human things?

• A) Simile

• B) Personification

• C) Metaphor

• D) Irony

What type of figurative language is used in the line "Out, out brief candle!" from Macbeth?

• A) Simile

• B) Metaphor

• C) Personification

• D) Alliteration