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)