ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -When one character is talking for a while, it’s called a monologue. Soliloquy is the word we traditionally use to refer to a monologue that is delivered when the character is alone.

Detailed explanation-2: -A soliloquy (q.v.) is a type of monologue in which a character directly addresses an audience or speaks his thoughts aloud while alone or while the other actors keep silent.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first line of the speech, “To be, or not to be, that is the question” contains two literary devices. These are antithesis and aporia. The following lines also contain aporia. Readers come across a metaphor in, “The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” This line also contains a personification.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare frequently uses a device that is known as the Homeric Simile – an extended simile that compares two unlike things and draws particular attention to a number of ways in which they are alike.

Detailed explanation-5: -William Shakespeare uses the literary technique of the soliloquy to allow the audience to see deeper into his characters’ thoughts in his play, Hamlet. This technique helps to reveal Hamlet’s true character, expressing emotions that the audience cannot see through his interactions with other characters.