In English, people usually refer to one thing by means of speaking another thing but they are in the same category. For example, we can say "A young man feels sad about this accident," but we also can say "A young heart feels sad about this accident." " A young heart" heare refers to "the young man." This is one kind of metaphors used not only in daily speech but quite often in literary works. So is the case in Shakespeare's works. Rhetoricians call this kind of metaphor synecdoche.In Act Scene 2, Puck saysasThe shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,Who Pyramus presented in their sport,Forsook his scene and entered in a brake."The shallowest thick skin" in this speech refers to