Much ado about nothing figurative language – Flashcards
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"She speaks poniards, and every word stabs."
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- said by benedick - metaphor - being stabbed is what it feels like when talking to beatrice
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"...I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me."
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- said by benedick - simile - compares Beatrice's gunfire from an army and emotional damage from the injury from the bullets
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"If so it prove so, then loving goes by haps; some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."
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- said by hero - allusion - compares Cupid's love arrows and match-making to traps of how friends have been devised
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"An oak but with one green leaf on it would have answered her..."
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- said by benedick - personification - Beatrice's words were so cruel that they would evoke a response from anyone
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"Farewell, thou pure impiety and impious purity!"
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- said by Claudio - oxymoron - communicates the mixture of love and hate Claudio has for hero
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"...with Beatrice, and then the two Bears and will not Bite one another when they meet."
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- said by Claudio - alliteration - Beatrice and Benedick will not fight or argue when they meet again
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"Will your Grace command me any service to the world's end?"
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- said by benedick - hyperbole - expresses aversion to Beatrice in a colorful way in hopes to escape her presence
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"Leonato, stand I here? Is this the prince? Is this the prince's brother?
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- said by Claudio - rhetorical question - Claudio had been so deceived that he questions everything, including his own perception
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"The most peaceful way for you, if you take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is, and steal out of your company."
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- said by dogberry - pun - use of this is to mean both "rob" and "sneak" for humorous effect
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"O God of Love! I know he doth deserve as much as may be yielded to a man..."
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- said by hero - apostrophe - says that benedick deserves all things
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"We have here recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that ever was known."
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- said by dogberry - malapropism - misuse of words: recovered should be "discovered" and lechery should be "treachery"
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"I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood."
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- said by leonato - metonymy - he is imperfect human
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"One woman is far, yet I am well; another wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well."
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- said by benedick - epistrophy - discoursing his immunity to love
