At thy return my blushing was not small, my rambling brat (in print) should mother call, i cast thee by as one unfit for light, the visage was so irksome in my sight; refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this poem. how does bradstreet’s use of figurative language in these lines affect their meaning? by comparing the speaker’s book to a sickly child, bradstreet builds sympathy for the book and antipathy toward the speaker. by comparing the speaker’s effort to hide the book to a parent’s attempt to lock a child in his room, bradstreet implies that writers are cruel. by comparing the cover of the speaker’s book to the face of a bratty child, bradstreet indicates how foolish it is to judge a book by its cover. by comparing the speaker’s book to an unruly child that embarrasses his parent, bradstreet conveys the idea that writing can be a and unpleasant task.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.