"The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoy’d no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated, as a swallow’d bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
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William Shakespeare wrote a sonnet expressing his desire for a woman. The sonnet showed how desire can be mistaken for love.
Shakespeare uses 7 Rhetorical devices to engage readers top read the sonnet.
The seven devices are; Asyndeton, antithesis, anaphora, anadiplois, pun, metaphor and similies.
The rhetorical devices create an effect on the reader. They make the reader think what the text is about. This introduces new ideas and draws the readers to the text to carry on reading. It is a ext that can not be answered.
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