What are the figures of speech Shakespeare uses in the play Merchant of Venice Act 1. scene 1 ?
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The first scene of the play abounds in similes and metaphors, and personification and allusion are used as well. have them, they are not worth the search. In a metaphor involving sea travel and the merchant fleets, Salarino calls the fleets “pageants of the sea
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line 3,4- But how I caught it, found it or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
personification- sadness is referred to as a thing that could be caught or born.
line 6- And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
Personification- This sadness makes him so absent-minded that he does not know who he is.
line 10- Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood
Simile
line 11- the pageants of the sea,
Metaphor- the ships are like carts displayed/ artefacts on display or in procession.
line 13,14- That curt'sy to them, do them reverence,
As they fly by them with their woven wings.
Personification- humanizing petty traffickers and
Metaphor- The sails of the ship are compared to the woven wings of a bird.
line 18- Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind.
The wind is personified to be sitting.
Line 29,30- Vailing her high top lower than her ribs
To kiss her burial.
Personification- personified to show human actions.
Line 34,35- Would scatter all her spices on the stream,
Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks,
Personification
(these are all the figures of speech from line 1-35 in the merchant of venice act 1 scene 1)