Read the extract below and answer the following questions ... Man is but an ass
Read the extract below and answer the following questions
... Man is but an ass if he go about to
expound this dream. Methought I was - there
is no man can tell
what. Methought I was, and methought I had -
but man is
But a patched fool, if he will offer
To say what methought I
had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of
man hath not
seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his
tongue to conceive, nor
his heart to report, what my dream was
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 201 - 207)
The speaker's language is best described as
- A. comic
- B. satiric
- C. conceit
- D. metaphoric
Correct Answer: A. comic
Explanation
Bottom's tendency to make melodramatic rhetorical mistakes manifests itself plentifully, particularly in his comically mixed-up association of body parts and senses: he suggests that eyes can hear, ears see, hands taste, tongues think, and hearts speak.