FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Foreshadow
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Irony
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Metaphor
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Allusion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Horatio warns Hamlet that the Ghost “might deprive your sovereignty of reason/And draw you into madness” (I. iv.). The Ghost itself instructs Hamlet: “Taint not thy mind” (I.v.). These warnings foreshadow Hamlet’s descent into madness.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears to reveal a disturbing truth and exact revenge. Ghosts as supernatural echoes of a moral injustice, are commonly viewed as metaphors for a longing for justice.
Detailed explanation-3: -These literary devices include: Repetition. Metaphor. Simile.
Detailed explanation-4: -What literary devices are used in Hamlets first soliloquy? Hamlet’s first soliloquy takes place in act 1, scene 2, when Hamlet is expressing his misery and shock at his mother’s new marriage to his uncle. He uses metaphor ("Frailty, thy name is woman!") and simile ("Like Niobe, all tears").