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Sonnet 116: Literary Devices

Sonnet 116: Literary Devices. By: William Shakespeare Taught by Cass and Ali. Assonance. “Admit impediments”. Alliteration. “Although HIS HEIGHT be taken” “Within his bending sickle’s COMPASS COME” “BUT BEARS it out even to the edge of doom” “I never writ, NOR NO man ever loved.”.

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Sonnet 116: Literary Devices

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  1. Sonnet 116: Literary Devices By: William Shakespeare Taught by Cass and Ali

  2. Assonance • “Admit impediments”

  3. Alliteration • “Although HIS HEIGHT be taken” • “Within his bending sickle’s COMPASS COME” • “BUT BEARS it out even to the edge of doom” • “I never writ, NOR NO man ever loved.”

  4. Repetition • “Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove”

  5. Metaphor • “O no! it is an ever-fixed mark” • “It is the star to ever wandering bark”

  6. Symbol • “Rosy lips and cheeks” symbolizes a girl whom one might be in love with”

  7. Synecdoche • “wandering bark” is referring to a ship

  8. Personification • “Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come”

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