#1) "My bounty is as boundless as
the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give
to thee
The more I have, for both are
infinite.
#2) "My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease"
(Sonnet CXLVII)
(Romeo and Juliet)
#3) "But that the dread of
#4) ". . . And summer's lease hath all too short a date,
something after death, The
undiscovered country, from whose Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
bourn No traveler returns,"
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd, . . .
(Hamlet)
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,"
#5) "Night’s candles are burnt out,
and jocund day stands tiptoe on
(Sonnet XVIII)
the misty mountaintops."
(Romeo and Juliet)
#6) “Death, that hath sucked the
#7) "Get your apparel together, good strings to your beards,
honey of thy breath, hath had no
new ribbons to your pumps; meet presently at the palace; "
power yet upon thy beauty…That
unsubstantial Death is amorous,
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
and that the lean abhorred monster
keeps thee here in dark to be his
paramour?”
(Romeo and Juliet)
#8) "Where at, with blade, with
#9) "I swear to thee by Cupid’s strongest bow,
bloody blameful blade, He bravely By his best arrow with the golden head, "
breach'd his boiling bloody
breast."
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
#10) "I go, and it is done; the bell
invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a
knell
That summons thee to heaven or
to hell."
(MacBeth)
Shakespeare’s Use of Figurative
Language
Read the literary term examples from the
various Shakespearean plays. In the
spaces below, identify the type of literary
device used (ex. metaphor, simile,
alliteration, etc.) and then give a brief
explanation of what you think
Shakespeare was trying to say. (What
was he comparing if he was using simile
or metaphor? What was he referring to if
he was using an allusion? What human
characteristics was he giving to
something not human? Which letters are
repeated if alliteration is present?)
Alliteration
Allusion
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Passage #
Literary Device
Used
What Does It All Mean?
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
Alliteration
Allusion
Metaphor
Personification
Simile