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| Literary Device |
Line Reference |
Explanation |
| Apostrophe |
line 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,12,14 |
reference to Death, in order to bring him down to the reader's level |
| Personification |
line 9, 13 |
Again making him conquerable and tangential |
| Synechdoche |
line 8 |
Splits the body and soul in two, with the physical and non physical |
| Litote |
line 1,2 |
emphasizing the fact that Death is neither mighty nor dreadful |
| Enjambment |
line 1 |
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| Metaphor |
line 5 |
relating sleep and rest as mere images of death and so the quatlities of sleep and rest should project onto death. |
| Anaphora |
line 10,11,12, |
a listing of Death's faults to prove that Death is not mighty nor fearful |
| Rhetorical Question |
line 12 |
brings to attention the false pride of Death |
| Metaphor |
line 13 |
Finally bringing death down again to say that it is mere sleep |
| Polyptoton |
line 14 |
repitition of death and die to emphasize the point |
| Irony |
line 14 |
Death dying |
| Connotation |
line 1,8 |
Death be not proud - imperative telling death to be humble; Deliverie - freedom from fear of death, into heaven, from life |
| Denotation |
line 8 |
Death be not proud- Death is literally not proud; Deliverie - set free |
| Synaesthesia |
line 10 |
Uses poison, war, and sickness to bring about a sense of nausea and disgust poarticularly through he scenes of ill scented death |
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