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A Midsummer Night's Dream Figurative Language Essay

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In Act 4 Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare presents a confrontation between the fairy queen Titania and the fairy king Oberon. The scene takes place in a forest and begins with Titania's infatuation with a transformed Bottom, who has been given a donkey's head by Puck and is now under Titania's spell. The purpose of the scene is to resolve the conflict between the two fairy rulers and restore harmony to the fairy kingdom. Rhetoric is important to the scene's purpose because Shakespeare employs figurative and poetic language to convey the emotional depth of the characters and their motivations. Throughout the scene, Shakespeare uses various forms of figurative and poetic language to reveal the emotional states of the characters.

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