Figurative Language Examples Act 2 The Tempest – Flashcards
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Pun
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A dollar/Dolor
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Repetition
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Ha, ha, ha
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Pun
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Of delicate temperence, Temperence (a girl) was a delicate wench
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Personification
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The air breaths upon us here most sweetly
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Personification/pun
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If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say he lies? Any, or a very falsely pocket up (conceal) his report.
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Classical Allusion
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His word is more than the miraculous harp. He hath raised the wall, and the houses to (referring to Amphion, the son of Zeus and Antiope, who magically raised the walls of ancient Thebes with his harp)
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personification
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I saw him beat the surges (waves) under him, and ride upon their backs
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Alliteration
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Wave-worn basis bowed
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Metaphor
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You rub the sore/When you should bring the plaster (a healing poltice)
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Metaphor
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It is foul weather in us all, good sir/when you are cloudy
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Paralell structure
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All foison (plenty), all abundance
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Metaphor
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Sleep is a comforter
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Simile
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They dropped as by a thunderstroke
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Metaphor
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I am standing water
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Personification
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Ambition cannot pierce a wink (see)
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Alliteration and contrast
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What's past is prologue
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Irony
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To the perpetual wink (sleep) for aye might put
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Simile
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They'll take suggestions as a cat laps up milk
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Irony
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Draw thy sword. One stroke shall free thee .... We stood securing thy repose (Sebastion and Antonio are supposed to be guarding the sleeping King and his ou chiller when in fact, they plan to murder him)
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Alliteration and onomatopoeia
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I heard a humming
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Similie
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Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
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Similie and personification
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Sometimes, like apes, that chatter at me
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Personification
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Another storm brewing, I hear it sing I' the wind
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Paralell structure
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The master, the swabber, the Boatswain
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Alliteration
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Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery
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Repetition
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Mercy, mercy
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Literary allusion
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This is a devil... I will leave him. I have no long spoon. He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon Meaning: distance if you dine with evil.
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Repetition
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How cam'st thou hither? ... How cam'st thou hither.
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Simile
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I can swim like a duck
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Biblical allusion
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Kiss the Book (references the holy book meaning have a drink)
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Paralell structure and literary allusion
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The man in the moon, and thy dog and thy bush.. (Folklore described a man on the moon as carrying sticks often from a thorn bush and he has a dog)
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Paralell structure
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I'll show thee the best springs, I'll pluck thee berries, I'll fish for thee.
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Paralell structure and alliteration
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No fetching in firing; nor scrape in trench erring (scrape wooden dishes to clean them)
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Repetition
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Freedom, high day! high day Freedom! Freedom high day, freedom!
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