Figurative Language Shakespeare

giving something human qualities is called

• pun

• allusion

• dramatic irony

• personification

a reference to something the audience should/ is expected to know is

• dramatic irony

• allusion

• soliloquy

• hyperbole

a remark to the audiencce or another character that others don't hear

• soliloquy

• aside

• pun

• hyperbole

What figurative language device is used here in an excerpt from Shakespeare's play "As You Like It":

"All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages."

• Simile

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

"I nearly died laughing" is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

"Life is a journey" is an example of what?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

An allusion is...

• the repetition of a sound

• a sound word

• giving human qualities to something non-human

• a reference to something or someone well known

If music be the food of love, play on;

Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken, and so die

This is an example of

• dramatic irony

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Orsino: Play that part again-it sounded melancholy. Oh, it sounded to me like a sweet breeze blowing over a bank of violets. This is an example of

• personification

• metaphor

• pun

• simile

"I have begun to plant thee, and will labour / To make thee full of growing," is an example of ________________.

• metaphor

• simile

• symbolism

• allusion