Metaphors: 'men and women are merely players' , ''the bubble reputation', ''this strange eventful history', etc.
Simile: 'creeping like a snail', 'sighing like furnace', 'bearded like a pard.'
Explanation:
'Seven Ages' is one of the masterpieces of Shakespeare where the author introduces a list of similes and metaphors to display the four stages of human life.
The very first metaphor that amalgamates the entire poem is 'all the world's a stage' and humans are mere actors playing their part.
Metaphor are elucidated as the figure of speech in which author establishes an implicit comparison between two distinct ideas or objects.
The other metaphors in the poem are when he says that 'men and women are players' (comparison of men and women with players), 'the bubble reputation', (comparison of humans with a bubble that fades away after a time), 'this strange eventful history'(where human life is compared to strange historical event), etc.
Simile is the literary device through which the author establishes the comparison using either 'like' or 'as.'
The similes that Shakespeare uses are mentioned above where the speaker compares 'reluctant move of a school boy to snail's creeping'(second stage), 'agony of young love like a furnace'(third stage), 'a young soldier's beard with the coat of leopard'(fourth stage).
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Metaphors: 'men and women are merely players' , ''the bubble reputation', ''this strange eventful history', etc.
Simile: 'creeping like a snail', 'sighing like furnace', 'bearded like a pard.'
Explanation:
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