FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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schoolboy and a snail
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sighing lover and a furnace
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person’s life and a play
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soldier and leopard
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Seven Ages of Man speech opens with a metaphor in which Jaques compares the world to a stage in a theatre and men and women to actors playing roles on such a stage. The idea of comparing the world to a stage was not new when Shakespeare wrote it.
Detailed explanation-2: -This monologue compares the world with a stage in a theatre. Men and women are the actors or players on this stage. Actors playing roles have entrances and exits during a performance. Life also has its entrances and exits-people are born and die and pass in and out of our lives.
Detailed explanation-3: -And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. It means that the world is like the stage of a theatre, and life is like a big drama, in which different men and women enter (through birth), play their individual parts, and exit (death).
Detailed explanation-4: -Metaphor-Compares last scene of the poem to death. Repetition-Sans is repeated in the last line. Personification-The sixth age shifts into the lean and slippery Pantaloon. Hyperbole-Even in a cannon’s mouth. Alliteration-Shrunk Shank.