While discussing the gravediggers actions, Hamlet says to Horatio, ..... its lower jaw knocked off and thwacked on the noggin with a shovel. Thwacked is an example of:

HAMLET

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While discussing the gravedigger’s actions, Hamlet says to Horatio, “ ____ its lower jaw knocked off and thwacked on the noggin with a shovel.” Thwacked is an example of:

A	alliteration
B	simile
C	onomatopoeia
D	hyperbole

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet asks the gravedigger whose grave he digs, and the gravedigger spars with him verbally, first claiming that the grave is his own, since he is digging it, then that the grave belongs to no man and no woman, because men and women are living things and the occupant of the grave will be dead.

Detailed explanation-2: -83. What are the gravediggers debating? Whether or not Ophelia should have had a Christian burial since she killed herself.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to the gravedigger, why is England a good place for Hamlet to have been sent? Because Hamlet was crazy and the people in England will take care of him because they’re just as crazy. Why does the priest insist that the burial service for Ophelia be brief?

Detailed explanation-4: -What bothers or perturbs Hamlet about the way the Gravedigger is doing his job? He doesn’t seem to care that he is dealing with the bodies of dead people.

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