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    Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scene 1 – Digital Methods for the Humanities
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    1. Amanda30 15 Dec 2021
      And then the moon, like to a silver bow New bent in heaven, shall behold the night

      Diana is known to go hunting at night and she is very fond of her "silver bow."

      Devices - allusion Devices - metonymy
    2. Amanda30 15 Dec 2021
      Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with my sword,

      The sword is a metonym for the war that had just played out between Theseus (Athens) and Hippolyta (Amazons). In diminishing the war to his sword and comparing it to a courtship tactic, it also downplays the real tragedy for the Amazonians who lost their independency. Theseus is promising Hippolyta that their wedding will be different from their first meeting which was in a war.

      Devices - metonymy
    3. Amanda30 13 Dec 2021
      Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with my sword,

      The sword is a metonym for the war that had just played out between Theseus (Athens) and Hippolyta (Amazons). In diminishing the war to his sword and comparing it to a courtship tactic, it also downplays the real tragedy for the Amazonians who lost their independency. Theseus is promising Hippolyta that their wedding will be different from their first meeting which was in a war.

      Devices - metonymy
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