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  1. 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). In this metaphor, Orsino equates music with something that "feeds" love.

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  2. 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 AnalysisLovesickness:

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  4. In this metaphor, one foot remains fixed and the other moves around it. All three meanings emphasize that Orsino means for Cesario to root himself to one spot until he is able to speak to Olivia. Caitlin, Owl Eyes Staff

  5. Twelfth Night is a play about desires power to override conventions of class, religion, and even gender. Several characters begin the play believing they want one thing, only to have love teach them they actually want something else. Orsino thinks he wants Olivia, until he falls in love with Viola (dressed as Cesario.)

  6. 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.

  7. Twelfth Night shows good use of various metaphors. For example, O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother. (Act-I, Scene-I, Lines, 32-33) My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color. (Act-II, Scene-1, Line, 1555) Truly madam, he holds Belzebub at the stave’s end (Act-V, Scene-I, Line, 275)

  8. A metaphor is the application of a word or phrase to somebody or something that is not meant literally but to make a comparison. For example: The Duke of Illyria compares music to food for lovers. Duke Orsino If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die (1.1.1-3).

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