This act takes place in the Gascony Guards' camp at the <u>siege of Arras</u>, where the soldiers are all suffering from hunger while the French are besieging Arras. The Spanish have encircled them hence no supplies can be brought to them through the lines.
A metaphor is comparing two unlike objects without the use of the words like or as. Metaphors are usually symbolic. An alliteration is a group of words that have similar letters or sounds. Personification is giving an inanimate object the characteristics that a person would have.
