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What figure of speech is illustrated in this sentence? "All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

What figure of speech is illustrated in this sentence? "All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
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What figure of speech is illustrated in this sentence? "All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

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metaphor

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That is a metaphor, for it is a direct comparison to to unlike things (world as a stage, men and women as players), without using "like" or "as."
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