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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. Twelfth Night: Metaphors 7 key examples. New! Understand every line of Twelfth Night . Read our modern English translation . Next. Mood. Definition of Metaphor. 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.

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  4. Expert Answers. Felicita Burton, Ph.D. | Certified Educator. Share Cite. Literary devices used in Twelfth Night include simile, metaphor , personification, and apostrophe. A simile is a...

  5. Metaphors 7 key examples. Mood 1 key example. Motifs 8 key examples. Parody 2 key examples. Personification 1 key example.

  6. Metaphor Examples in Twelfth Night: "debt of love..." See in text (Act I - Scene I) Olivia’s sadness and ardent commitment to keeping that sadness “fresh” in her “remembrance” can be seen as a pose of melancholy. Like Orsino who affects the tropes of love-sickness, Olivia plays the role of melancholy. Together, these two characters ...

  7. Analysis of Literary Devices in Twelfth Night. 1. Alliteration: It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. A play written in blank verse, Twelfth Night shows many examples of the use of alliteration. For example, “No man must know.”.

  8. 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.

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