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What are the figures of speech in seven stages man by William shakespeare?

All the World’s a Stage by William Shakespeare contains several literary and rhetorical devices. Some of them include:

1. Metaphor:

- "*All the world's a stage,*

*And all the men and women merely players;*

*They have their exits and entrances,*

*And one man in his time plays many parts.*"

2. Personification:

- "*Infancy, mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.*"

- "*And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel*

*And shining morning face, creeping like snail*

*Unwillingly to school.*"

3. Simile:

- "*Then a lover,*

*Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad*"

- "*Then a soldier,*

*Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,*

*Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,*

*Seeking the bubble reputation*

*Even in the cannon's mouth.*"

4. Alliteration:

- "*Mewling and puking*"

- "*Whining school-boy*"

- "*Sighing like furnace*"

5. Antithesis:

- "*At first the infant,*

*Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.*

*And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel*

*And shining morning face, creeping like snail*

*Unwillingly to school.*"

6. Parallelism:

- "*Then a lover,*

*Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad*"

- "*Then a soldier,*

*Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,*

*Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,*

*Seeking the bubble reputation*

*Even in the cannon's mouth.*"

7. Rhetorical Questions:

- "*When he himself might his quietus make*

*With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,*

*To grunt and sweat under a weary life,*

*But that the dread of something after death,*

*The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn*

*No traveller returns, puzzles the will*

*And makes us rather bear those ills we have*

*Than fly to others that we know not of?"*

8. Hyperbole:

- "*With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,*

*To grunt and sweat under a weary life,*"

- "*Than fly to others that we know not of?"*

9. Irony:

- "*Then a lover,*

*Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad*" (The lover is not actually happy but pretending to be)

- "*And then the justice,*

*In fair round belly with good capon lined*" (The justice is supposed to be impartial, but he is biased due to his greed and gluttony)

10. Oxymoron:

- "*Weary life*" (Life is not usually associated with weariness, but here it is)

- "*Undiscover'd country*" (A country that is undiscovered is not really a country)

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