FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Metaphor
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Alliteration
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Repetition
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Simile
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Detailed explanation-1: -The quote ‘’His beard was as white as snow” is an example of simile, or a direct comparison that helps illustrate an important image.
Detailed explanation-2: -Speaking to Ophelia, Hamlet uses a simile to compare chastity to ice and snow, suggesting that it is both pure and cold, or lacking in passion. In this simile, Hamlet sarcastically tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that playing a pipe is as easy as lying (which they have been doing to him).
Detailed explanation-3: -These literary devices include: Repetition. Metaphor. Simile.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3. In a bid to flatter Claudius, Rosencrantz uses this simile to compare a king to a huge body of water, who, if he were to die, would bring many others along with him like a retreating wave pulling people out to sea. O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven.
Detailed explanation-5: -"The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body.” “But such offers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw–first mouthed, to belast swallowed.” Simile-“Mad as the sea and wind when both contend.."