All figures of speech examples at one place:
1.4 All the World’s a Stage
(a) His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
Ans. Alliteration. Repetition of the sound of ‘w’.
(b) For his shrunk shank
Ans. Alliteration. Repetition of the sound of ‘s’.
(c) Turning again towards childish treble
Ans. Alliteration. Repetition of the sound of ‘t’.
(d) Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Ans. Repetition. The word ‘sans’ is repeated for emphasis.
(e) Simile (examples)
Ans.
(1) Creeping like a snail
(2) Soldier bearded like the pard
(f) Onomatopoeia (examples)
Ans.
(1) And then the whining schoolboy
(2) Sighing like a furnace
(g) Alliteration (examples)
Ans.
(1) They have their exits and their entrances
(2) His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
(h) Metaphor (examples)
Ans.
(1) They have their exits and their entrances
(2) men and women merely players
(i) Inversion (examples)
Ans.
(1) His acts being seven ages.
(2) With eyes severe and beard of formal cut
(j) Transferred Epithet (examples)
Ans.
(1) with a woeful ballad
(2) Into the lean and slippered pantaloon
Figure of speech
(a) creeping like a snail
Ans. Simile: Two dissimilar objects are compared using the word ‘like’.
(b) Soldier bearded like the pard
Ans. Simile: Two dissimilar objects are compared using the word like’.
(c) Sighing like furnace
Ans. Simile: Two dissimilar objects are compared using the word ‘like’.
(d) men and women merely players
Ans. Metaphor: Implicit comparison between two different things.
(e) They have their exits and their entrances
Ans. Alliteration: Repetition of the sound of ‘e’.
Metaphor: Implicit comparison between two different things.
(f) With a woeful ballad
Ans. Alliteration: Repetition of the sound of ‘w’.
Transferred Epithet: It is not the ballad that is woeful but the lover.
(g) All the world’s a stage
Ans. Metaphor : The world is implicitly compared with a stage.