The document describes a lavish and ornate barge adorned with golden and purple elements, as well as silver oars, which glides along the river to the harmonious sounds of various musical instruments. It highlights the beauty and grandeur of the scene through literary devices such as metaphor, simile, and personification. The writing is rich in rhetorical techniques, enhancing the imagery of the barge and its surroundings.

3. • …she disdained to set forward otherwise but to take her barge
in the river Cydnus, the poop whereof was of gold, the sails of
purple, and the oars of silver, which kept stroke in rowing after
the sound of the music of flutes, howboys, cithernes, viols, and
such other instruments as they played up in the barge.
• The barge she sat in like a burnished throne,
Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails and so perfumed that
The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes.

4. Rhetoric
• Alliteration, assonance
• Metre
• Metaphor, simile
• Diacope
• Hypotaxis, parataxis
• Anaphora
• Personification
• Sabotage! Cliché, adverbs, passive voice, repeated words,
clauses