Question

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.” …………..


which poetic device is used in this sentence​

Answer 1

Answer:

Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. ... I think it's too rough, too rude, too rowdy, and it pricks like a thorn. MERCUTIO. If love be rough with you, be rough with love.

Alliteraction is used there!

Answer 2

The figure of speeches used in the above quotes are alliteration and simile.

Explanation:

The poet compares the feeling of love with different other feelings , the poet asks if loves feels tender or is it too rough to handle.

• Love for him is a mixture of complicated feelings which cannot be expressed or understood fully.
• He compares it with pricks of thorns, the pain when stabbed with a thorn.
• When two objects are being compared the figure of speech is called simile.

The poet also repeats words like rude, rough which potrays the same kind of feeling for the poem hence they are called alliterations.