| Figure of speech | Examples |
|---|---|
| (a) Simile | 1. creeping like snail 2. sighing like furnace (also: bearded like the pard) |
| (b) Onomatopoeia | 1. mewling and puking 2. pipes and whistles in his sound (also: whining) |
| (c) Alliteration | 1. His acts being seven ages (‘s’ sound) 2. Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything (‘s’ sound) |
| (d) Metaphor | 1. All the world’s a stage 2. And all the men and women merely players (also: the bubble reputation) |
| (e) Inversion | 1. With eyes severe (for ‘with severe eyes’) 2. Last scene of all (for ‘the last scene of all’) |
| (f) Transferred Epithet | 1. woeful ballad (the lover, not the ballad, is woeful) 2. shining morning face |
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· 25 Oct 2026
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