Literary Devices

“Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

“I must be cruel, only to be kind” - Hamlet

"To die, to sleep-- No more-- " Hamlet

"It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." - MacBeth

“Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me” -Emily Dickenson

“For I pass over in silence the ruin of your fortunes” - Cicero, First Oration Against Catiline

"The sword wasn't useless to the warrior." - Beowulf

"Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure?" - Antony

"If winter is come, can spring be far behind?" - Ode to the West Wind

“Fair is foul and foul is fair,” -Macbeth

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.

"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." -John F. Kennedy

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n.” -John Milton, Paradise Lost

"A little more than kin, and less than kind." - Hamlet

"Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed." - Hamlet

In order that by Catiline’s departure everything may be exposed, brought to light, overwhelmed and punished -Cicero

“Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No.” - Macbeth

“[They] covered themselves with dust and glory.” -Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"'Tis given out that, sleeping my my orchard, a serpent stung me, and so the whole Ear of Denmark" - Hamlet's Father

"O Happy Dagger! This is they sheath; there rust, and let me die." Juliet