A stake is a piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support while reward is something of value given in return for an act.
Hope this helps
Imagery: <span>The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars / As daylight doth a lamp.
allusion: </span><span>Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies, / And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine... </span>personification: <span>That fair for which love groan’d for and would die, / With tender Juliet match’d, is now not fair. </span>foreshadowing: Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; / Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
John Dryden's critical essays foreshadow the satire of Thomas Jefferson in his letters to Washington, usually regarding the state of affairs with Hamilton.