act 3 much ado about nothing

hero; simile

"now begin for look where beatrice like a lapwing runs. close by the ground to hear our conference" LD

hero; personification

"O god of love! i know he doth deserve as much as may be yield to a man but nature never framed a womans heart" LD

hero

"therefore let benedick like a covered fire consume away in sighs waste inwardly it were better death than die with mocks which is as bad as die to tickling"

beatrice; personification/ alliteration

"I will requite thee taming my wild heart to thy loving hand. If thou dost love my kindness shall incite thee to bind our loves up in hold bands" LD

Don john

"Even she: Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every man's Hero."

don pedro

"And, as I wooed for thee to obtain her, I will join with thee to disgrace her."

dogberry

"why you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman for I cannot see how sleeping offend. Only have a care that your bills be not stolen"

Borachio

"and partly by his oaths which possesses them partly by the dark night which did deceive them but chiefly by my villiany which did confirm any slander than don john made"

don pedro; metaphor and personification

"he hath a heart as sound as a bell and his tongue is the clapper for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks" LD

claudio

"no but the barbers man hath been seen with him and the old ornament of his cheeks hath already stuffed tennis balls"

claudio; personification/metaphor

"nay but his jesting spirit which is now crept into a lute string and now governed by stops" LD

claudio; alliteration

"hero and margaret have by this played their parts with beatrice and then the 2 bears will not bite on another when they meet" LD

margaret; pun

"get you some of this distilled carduus benedictus and lay it on your heart. it is the only thing for a qualm" LD