Similie | “Then all afire with me, the king’s son, Ferdinand, with hair up-staring” |
Metaphor | “The winds sing it to me, and the thunder, that deep and dreadful organ-pipe pronnounce’d the name of Prospero; it did base my trespass” |
Hyperbole | “Your tale, Sir, would cure deafness” |
Paradox | “What’s past is Prologue” |
Personification | “The music crept by me upon the waters, allaying both their fury and my passion” |
Metaphor | “My library was dukedom large enough” |
Metaphor | “You taught me to language; and my profit on’t is, I know how to curse.” |
Metaphor | “No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall to make this contract grow” |
Metaphor | “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” |
Oxymoron | “Do that good mischief which may make this island thine own forever” |
The Tempest figurative language
July 29, 2019