- "All the world’s a stage"
- "And one man in his time plays many parts"
- "His acts being seven ages"
Simile:
- "Like a Colossus"
Personification:
- "Creeping like snail/Unwillingly to school"
- "The lover, Sighing like furnace with a woful ballad/Made to his mistress’ eyebrow"
- "Then a soldier… Seeking the bubble reputation/Even in the cannon’s mouth"
- "Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard"
- "His youthful hose, well-saved, a world too wide/For his shrunk shank"
- "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."