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Romeo and Juliet-
Romeo's speech to Juliet's seemingly dead body
when he's about to kill himself:

Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here's to my love!
(He drinks the poison and dies)

2006-12-31 09:05:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Homework Help

5 answers

The literary device is metaphor. Death is a prevalent image and metaphor throughout the play.

2006-12-31 09:14:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

umm metaphor?
He is comparing his suicidal death to a plane crashing into the water. At least that is what it looks like to me.

there is some personification where it says:
"The Dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!"
Bark can't be seasick.

2006-12-31 17:07:32 · answer #2 · answered by i.heart.u 5 · 0 0

LITERARY DEVICES

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/

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http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/Literary.Terms.Menu.html

http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm

http://www.mistupid.com/literature/litterms.htm

Simile

A figure of speech which takes the form of a comparison between two unlike quantities for which a basis for comparison can be found, and which uses the words "like" or "as" in the comparison, as in this line from Ezra Pound's "Fan-Piece, for Her Imperial Lord": clear as frost on the grass-blade,In this line, a fan of white silk is being compared to frost on a blade of grass. Note the use of the word "as" in the comparison.
See Metaphor for more information.

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/resources/Literary.Terms.3.html#Simile

Simile is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as. Related to metaphor

Example:

He eats like a pig. Vines like golden prisons.

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/simile.html

Examples

•Like a writhing snake, the broken electrical wires hissed and twitched in the damp grass.

•When the gates were opened, the mob surged forward like a burst dam.

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http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/

Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, England.

2006-12-31 17:14:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

also personification (death = unsavoury guide, etc.)

2006-12-31 17:09:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

soliloquy

2006-12-31 17:09:24 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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