1. In Shakespeare’s famous metaphor that
compares the world to a stage, what does he
compare men and women to?
2. Shakespeare uses an extended metaphor
when he has Jaques describe a person’s life as
though it were a play made up of seven acts
Name those seven acts
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The Seven Ages of Man
William Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage
And all the men and women merely players
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and pulding in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier.
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel
Seelding the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Iste the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on mase and pouch on side:
His youthful hose, well saved. a world too wide
For his shrunk shank and his big manly volce
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all
That ends this strange eventful history,
is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
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3. In this monologue what images you
picture childhood as que ses it?
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4. What simile describes the schoolboy’s
attitude toward school? How do you think
Jaques feels about infants and schoolboys?
5. Give an esample of how alliteration is
used in this poem