"This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein."
Allusion
“The course of true love never did run smooth”
Personification
"So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry,
seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition."
Similie
"I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear
With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear…
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
"
Allusion
"Love looks not with the eyes,
but with the mind,
and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind"
Personification, Rhyming
"Swift as a shadow,
short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night."
Similie
"Jack shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well."
Allusion
"Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander everywhere."
Rhyming, alliteration
"My heart is true as steel."
Similie
"Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So,
with two seeming bodies,
but one heart."
Metaphor
"Cupid is a knavish lad"
Allusion
"Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast."
Alliteration
"A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing."
Metaphor
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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