Simile

The venom clamors of a jealous woman
Poisons more deadly than a mad dog’s toothSimile.
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Philostrate
So please your Grace, the Prologue is addressed.
Theseus
Let him approach.

His speech was like a tangled chain—nothing
impaired, but all disordered.

 Enter the Prologue.
Prologue
If we offend, it is with our goodwill.
That you should think we come not to offend,
But with goodwill.
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Prince
See, see, here comes the man we went to seek.
Claudio
Now, signior, what news?
Benedick, to Prince 
Good day, my lord.
Prince
Welcome, signior. You are almost come to
part almost a fray.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor

Claudio
We had like to have had our two noses
snapped off with two old men without teeth.
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Duke
Come, cousin Angelo,
In this I’ll be impartial. Be you judge
Of your own cause.  Duke and Angelo are seated.
 Enter Mariana, veiled.
Is this the witness, friar?
First, let her show her face, and after speak.
Mariana
Pardon, my lord, I will not show my face
Until my husband bid me.
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Escalus, to disguised Duke
Come, sir, did you set these women on to slander
Lord Angelo? They have confessed you did.
Duke, as Friar
’Tis false.
Escalus
How? Know you where you are?

Laws for all faults,
But faults so countenanced that the strong statutes
Stand like the forfeits in a barber’s shop,
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Benedick
Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well
at my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.
Margaret
Will you then write me a sonnet in praise
of my beauty?

No, I was not born under a rhyming planet,
nor I cannot woo in festival terms

Benedick
In so high a style,
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Come, come, Lavinia. Look, thy foes are bound.—
Sirs, stop their mouths. Let them not speak to me,
But let them hear what fearful wordsTransferred Epithet I utter.—
O villains, Chiron and Demetrius!
Here stands the spring whom you have stained with mud,
This goodly summer with your winter mixed.Metaphors

Here stands the spring whom you have stained with mud,
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But Cassius is no more. O setting sun,
As in thy red rays thou dost sink tonight,
So in his red blood Cassius’ day is set!Simile
The sun of Rome is set.Metaphor Our day is gone,
Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done!Alliteration
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