| Example | Type of Figurative Language |
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| 'Alas, [Caesar] cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,' as a sick girl.' | |
| 'You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!' | |
| 'Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home! Is this a holiday?' | |
| 'Have you not made an universal shout, that Tiber [River] trembled underneath her banks...' | |
| 'These growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wing will make him fly an ordinary pitch...' | |
| 'Truly sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler.' | |
| 'And therefore think him as a serpent's egg, which hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous...' | |
| 'It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking. Crown him that, and then I grant we put a sting in him.' | |
| 'Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus...' | |
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