FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Metaphor
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Anaphora
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Personification
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Allusion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Literary Devices in Hamlet: Repetition and Metaphor Hamlet: Words, words, words. These two quotes use a repetition of a single word three times for emphasis.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Metaphors in Hamlet For instance, in Hamlet’s famous To Be or Not To Be speech, he wonders ‘’Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles/ And, by opposing, end them.
Detailed explanation-4: -Personification. Another figure of speech used in Hamlet is personification, a line in which a non-human thing is given human attributes or emotions. For example, Hamlet addresses the inanimate concept of “frailty” as a person with a name. He laments out loud, “Frailty, thy name is woman!” (Act 1, scene 2, line 146).