Question

Find the figurative language in the following lines from a midsummer night’s dream.

Here therefore for a while I will remain.

So sorrow’s heaviness doth heavier grow

For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe,

Which now in some slight measure it will pay,

If for his tender here I make some stay.

Answer 1

The following lines exhibit figurative language from the poem:

"So sorrow’s heaviness doth heavier grow

For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe"

• In the first line, the feeling of sorrow has been given the attribute of heaviness to describe how intense it is. It is said to be growing heavier, which means, it is intensifying with passing time.
• In the second line, debt has been described to have slept in sorrow which is again an association of human emotion with an inanimate thing.