Literary Terms In this sonnet Shakespeare uses imagery to give the reader an excellent view of his mistress. ... Shakespeare also uses a central theme in the sonnet, which is that of Un-dying love. He writes, at the end of the sonnet, that hislove is rare.? ... The last term that stands out in the sonnet is the Metaphor. Shakespeare uses various metaphors throughout the sonnet to allow the reader to get an idea of his mistress's physique. ...

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Poetry Critique In William Shakespeare's sonnet 130 he writes about an ironic love for a fairly unattractive mistress. ... In sonnet 116 Shakespeare writes about true love. ... In both of these sonnet form poems Shakespeare includes a great quantity of imagery, tone, figures of speech, and rime scheme. ... Shakespeare is describing here what a true love to him really is. ... Through all the imagery, rime, figures of speech and tone in these sonnets, Shakespeare was able to successfully get his point across. ...

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This is displayed well in two of his more famous sonnets,My Mistress? ... of the sonnet. Shakespeare also used figures of speech well to explain his subject matter. One he used was the title of the sonnet, ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"). ... In the second sonnet, Shakespeare used images of a forest in autumn, growing brown and dying. ...

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Shakespeare was an infamous poet and playwright who wrote many sonnets and plays- tragedies, comedies and histories, whose common themes were love, life and death. ... In this poem, Shakespeare presents a very strong argument to the reader, and does this using numerous poetic devices. Shakespeare exercises complex metaphors to depict the struggles one undergoes in life, and to contrast between life and death. ... Shakespeare employs this device to outline different groups of people, and qualities- young or old, strong or weak which will face death. ... Shakespeare uses metonymy to introduce a...

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Thou art more lovely and more temperate (Shakespeare, Sonnet #18) Purpose- This is one of Shakespeare's many extended metaphors. ... Example- "Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar) Purpose- This sarcastic remark is used to show that Brutus is actually the opposite of what is said. ... Purpose- Shakespeare uses this irony to show that what happens occurs out of forces not under the control of the characters. ...

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