Question

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act, what kind of figure of speech is this ?​

Answer 1

Answer: Give thy thoughts no tongue' In other words, I'm reading this as 'don't say everything you think'. So if this is sound advice, one of two things must be true: a warning that says 'don't trust your thoughts', or, 'don't trust how your thoughts will be received'.23-Sep-2019

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

Personification has been used in this sentence.

It is a figure of speech that allows the author to provide humanistic characteristics to non-living or abstract things.

In the given sentence, 'thoughts' have been given the features of a person, 'tongue'. The statement means:                                                                              'your thoughts should not be given the tongue to speak. Your thoughts should not be exposed to others.'

Hence, the figure of speech employed here is personification.