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| Renaissance Fashion |
Robert Herrick fetishizes the clothing of the addressee in "Upon Julia's Clothes".
Personification: giving a nonhuman or nonliving thing the characteristics or qualities of a human being.
Tomlin's penis becomes a being of its own when Nashe personifies the penis when Tomlin is able to become erect again and have sex with Francis in "The Choice of Valentines" (Page 462-463).
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| I Modi |
In Sonnet or "Position" 10 of I Modi, Aretino uses the curate character to satirize the strict sexual repression of priests.
Pun: making a word work in two different ways, with two separate meanings.
In Ben Jonson's Epigram "On Gut", Jonson uses a pun on the word "meat" to mean both food and nourishment, but also the male genitals.
