Read the quoted lines from the play that follow. what literary device does shakespeare use to develop helena's character? "i am your spaniel, and demetrius the more you beat me i will fawn on you use me but as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me neglect me, lose me; only give me leave unworthy as i am, to follow you" (shakespeare 2.1.203-205). a. imagery b. metaphor c. onomatopoeia d. personification

The quoted lines from William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” introduces and also develops Helena’s character.

The literary device which Shakespeare has used is personification.

Explanation:

This kind of literary device is the attribution of a human characteristic or personal nature to something that is not a human or is a representation of an abstract quality in the human form. Going through the lines carefully, it is noticed how Helena’s character introduction is done. With the help of personification, the character’s nature is revealed in layers and concluded.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human