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Question
Comment on the literary device, used in the following line:
Titania: Be kind and courteous to this gentleman….
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Solution
- Personification – Bottom, who has the head of an ass is personified by being called a 'gentleman‘.
- Tautology – The words 'kind‘ and 'courteous‘ having the same meaning are placed in the same line.
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