See sonnet and turn . As with metaphor , the simile yokes two different objects to create a new meaning which cannot be described by literal language alone. Thje two main types of the sonnet are the Petrarchan and the Shakespearean. As we are working with Shakespeare, we're going to concentrate on the latter . The single, over-riding goal that a character wishes to achieve, that encompasses all actions an actor pursues from scene to scene, from the beginning of the play to the end.
Writers devise private symbols for a particular work.
Usually the reader is first introduced to the symbol in its literal meaning. Then, gradually, the additional meanings grow apparent. The different ways an actor might go about doing an action. In the Shakespearean sonnet, that turn takes place between lines twelve and thirteen. Because the poet has only two lines in which to resolve the argument of the sonnet, this resolution is usually witty, paradoxical, aphoristic, logically clever or amusing.