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| Simile: "And that the trunk be discharged of breath, as violently as hasty powder fired." (Act V, Scene 1, Lines 90-91) |
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Definition
| This example is a simile because it uses the word "as" to compare the trunk and a violent gun. |
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| Simile: "O me! This sight of death is as a bell, that warms my old age to a sepulchre." (Act V, Scene 3, Lines 207-208) |
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Definition
| This is a simile because it uses the word "as" to compare the sight of death to a bell. |
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| Metaphor: "There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls." (Act V, Scene 1, Line 80) |
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Definition
| This is a metaphor because it is comparing gold to poison without using "like" or "as". |
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| Metaphor: "Poor living corpse, clased in a dead man's tomb." (Act V, Scene 2, Line 10) |
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Definition
| This an implied metaphor. This is a metaphor because it is comparing Juliet to a living corpse. (living corpse is an oxymoron!) |
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| Personification: "My poverty but not my will, consents." (Act V, Scene 1, Line 75) |
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Definition
| This is personification because it is giving poverty (an idea/concept) the human ability to consent. |
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| Personification: "The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head." (Act V, Scene 3, Line 305) |
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Definition
| This is personification because it is giving the sun (an object) the ability to feel sorrow, a head (human quality), and a gender. |
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| Hyperbole: "And drink it off; and, if you had the strength of 20 men, it would dispatch you straight." (Act V, Scene 1, Lines 78-79) |
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Definition
| This is a hyperbole because it is exaggerating the strength. It is impossible for someone to have the strength of 20 men. |
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| Hyperbole: "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo." (Act V, Scene 3, Lines 325-326) |
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Definition
| This is a hyperbole because it is exaggerating how sad the story is, saying that nothing is more sad than this story. |
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