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  1. by William Shakespeare. Buy Study Guide. Twelfth Night Metaphors and Similes. Love and Illness. In perhaps the most famous metaphor of the play, Orsino's opening words are, "If music be the food of love, play on. / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die" (1.1).

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  2. Expert Answers. Literary devices used in Twelfth Night include simile, metaphor , personification, and apostrophe. A simile is a comparison for effect between unlike things using “like” or ...

  3. A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other. The comparison in a metaphor... read full definition. Act 1, scene 1. Explanation and Analysis—Lovesickness:

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  5. Feste uses metaphors to get a third coin out of Orsino. “Play” is a reference to a child’s game in which players call out “one, two, three.” “Third plays for all” means third time’s a charm, and “triplex” is a musical beat played in triple time.

  6. Other literary devices are used excessively. Their occurrence in the play Twelfth Night is listed below. The image of flowers is used as simile. It says. “ For women are as roses, whose fair flower being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.”. Precious stones are used as metaphors.

  7. Twelfth Night: Metaphor Analysis. The Fool- Feste represents the contradictory nature of the play. Though he is the fool, he has an incredible wit, and shows that things are not always as they seem. Twelfth Night- The name of the play is a holiday in which things are said to be turned upside down.

  8. Drowning in Twelfth Night is nearly always a metaphor for loss, usually a loss of perspective through submersion in excess. The theme is seen in the first speech of the play, as...

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