| Act I, Scene i "Horatio:A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;(130) As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. And even the like precurse of feared events,(135) As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to the omen coming on, Have heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climature and countrymen." (metaphor, hyperbole, allusion) Act 1, Scene ii "Hamlet: Not so, my lord, I am too much in the sun" (pun) |
This play is full of figurative language. It has puns, similes, metaphors, allusions, alliteration, hyperboles, and so much more. The use of these things make the play come to life as it helps express things simple sentences may not. For example, the first quote I used has three devices in it. In this quote Horatio is speaking of the ghost's appearance and over-exaggerating it's presence by comparing it to the fall of Caeser, this extreme analogy really just shows his fear. In the second quote Hamlet has a play on words with the word sun instead of son. He is cleverly answering a question while at the same time speaking his mind about being the son of Claudius now saying doesn't like it (too much in the sun).
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