Symbolism

Antithesis

Good wombs have borne bad sons. (1. 2. 141) 

Contrast of good wombs and bad sons. The statement is also a paradox.

Alliteration
................ Hast thou forgot 
The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy 
Was grown into a hoop? (1.2.259-260)

Full fathom five thy father lies (.2.394)

He that dies pays all debts. (3.2.143)

Hyperbole
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. (1.2.106) 
This line also contains a metaphor comparing the tale to a remedy.
Metaphor
My library  
Was dukedom large enough. (1.2.128) 
Comparison of a dukedom to a library.

................. The king's son, Ferdinand,  

With hair up-staring,—then like reeds, not hair, 
Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty 
And all the devils are here.' (1.2.213-216) 
Comparison of Prospero's island to hell

You taught me language; and my profit on’t 

Is, I know how to curse. (1. 2. 430-431) 
Comparison of knowledge to profit.   
 

The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder, 

That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced 
The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.(3.3.97-99) 
 
Metaphor (and personification) comparing the winds to a singer
Metaphor comparing thunder to the sound made by an organ pipe

No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall 

To make this contract grow. (4.1.18-19) 
Comparison of heaven's approval to rain (aspersion) that promotes the growth of a seed

We are such stuff  

As dreams are made on, and our little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. (4.1.168-170) 
Comparison of humans to the immateriality of a dream

Paradox
What's past is prologue. (2.1.261

- When the banquet is shown and suddenly removed:parallelism with prospero’s famous
speech?

Discovery: Beneath the appearance of disaster is the hand of a loving and watchful God, whose
workings are ultimately for the good of his creation.

Antonio Rebels against the familial Prospero: ‘He was/The Evil can lurk even in those
duties of a younger ivy which had hid my we trust most; it is
brother and against the princely trunk,/And irresponsible and
political duties of a sucked my verdure out dangerous to be like
subject. Seizes power that on’t.’ (I,2.87) Prospero and allow others
does not belong to him. to carry out your duties
for you.
- The play is also highly meta-theatrical – it is a spectacle, put on by a ‘magician’ of the theatre
(Shakespeare) about a magician who puts on spectacles (Prospero). There is a play within
the a play (the masque in 4.1) and a number of references to theatre within the play itself,
most notably Prospero’s epilogue speech.

+prosper’s speech

+prosper’s the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance

+ O BRAVE NEW WORLD!

+all of vs our selues/When no man was his owne

+symbol of the masque

In one voyage" many persons and things were found, among them, "all of vs our selues/When no
man was his owne" (D. 18). With the final visionary entrance of Miranda at the end of the nobles'
wanderings, "all" of the aristocrats are symbolically "unmasked" to themselves and restored to
their own identities
Is she the goddesse that hath seuer'd vs,
And brought vs thus together

- Miranda being goddess

DISCOVERY CONCEPTS in 'The Tempest'

- European voyages | Opening up the world
- Self-discovery & personal growth
- Control & the power of knowledge

DISCOVERY CAN BE:

- New | pioneering
- Sudden & unexpected
- Emotional
- Creative
- Intellectual
- Physical
- Spiritual
- Confronting & provocative
- Revealing of new worlds|ideas|speculations
- Revealing of new understandings & renewed perceptions 
- Far-reaching & transformative
- Challenged when viewed from different viewpoints 
- Reassessed over time (worth)
- Affirming or challenging of assumptions about human behaviour

https://edrolo.com.au/hsc/subjects/english/discovery-tempest/