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Word Meaning in the Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language — Cumulative exam

Question 36 • IC English 12 - Deering

Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Guildenstern: Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.Hamlet: A dream itself is but a shadow.Rosencrantz: Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow.

Answer
A
dreams and ambition by using metaphors.
B
shadows and dreams by using similes.
C
ambition and substance by using apostrophes.
D
substance and dreams by using personification.
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