Like It , mocks the manner of Leander's death, claiming that its cause was not love but simply a swimming accident. Shakespeare's characters frequently refer to Leander's exploits as a standard measure of romantic devotion. While Shakespeare's allusions to mythology are most often to classical myths, at times he drew upon non-classical myths and native folklore, calling up memories of the legendary King Arthur and such figures as St. George and Robin Hood and his merry men. From Jacobus de Voragine, Here begynneth the legende named in latyn legenda aurea, Westminster, 1493. In personification, human attributes are ascribed to non-human creatures or inanimate objects.
Proverbs distill common experience into a compact and memorable formula.
And metaphor is a comparison that identifies one thing with another, dissimilar thing. All of these help explain the strange by using the familiar, challenging the reader with the power of their resonance. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. From Francesco Petrarca, Opera, Venice, 1508. You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave.