Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwilling to school. And then the lover, Sighing like a furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble-reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. Identify the figure of speech used in the first line.
The figure of speech used in the first line, "All the world is a stage," is a metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things by stating that one is the other, without using "like" or "as," which are typically used in similes. In this line, the world is compared to a stage, suggesting that life is like a play and people are like…Read More
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