WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night Read the extract below and answer the question I have said too much unto a heart of stone, And laid my honour too unchary...

Assessment: WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 1999 (Objective) Subject: Literature In English

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night
Read the extract below and answer the question

I have said too much unto a heart of stone,
And laid my honour too unchary on 't;
There's something in me that reproves my fault,
But such a headstrong potent fault it is
That it but mocks reproof.
(Acts iii, Scene 4)

The figure of speech used in '' a heart of stone'' is
Answer Details
The figure of speech used in "a heart of stone" is a metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two things by saying one thing is another thing. In this case, the speaker is comparing the person they were speaking to (whose heart is not moved by their words) to a heart of stone. This comparison helps to emphasize how unfeeling and unresponsive the person is, and how the speaker's words have had no effect on them.

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