Question

Continue working with a partner to annotate and analyze Shakespeare's The Tempest. You will select one scene from the play and provide annotations that explain Shakespeare's use of figurative language. Then you will examine your partner's scene and write a paragraph that explains how details from the scene, including the figurative language, reveal Shakespeare's attitudes toward colonialism and imperialism.
Your assignment should include the following elements:
At least 12 annotations about the figurative language in a scene from The Tempest
Annotations that cover at least three different types of figurative language
A paragraph about your partner's scene that analyzes Shakespeare's message about colonialism and imperialism in The Tempest
Evidence from the scene to support your analysis

Answer 1

Then all afire with me, the king's son, Ferdinand, with hair up-staring"

Metaphor

"The winds sing it to me, and the thunder, that deep and dreadful organ-pipe pronnounce'd the name of Prospero; it did base my trespass"

Hyperbole

"Your tale, Sir, would cure deafness"

Paradox

"What's past is Prologue"

Personification

"The music crept by me upon the waters, allaying both their fury and my passion"

Metaphor

"My library was dukedom large enough"

Metaphor

"You taught me to language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse."

Metaphor

"No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall to make this contract grow"

Metaphor

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

Oxymoron

"Do that good mischief which may make this island thine own forever"