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QuizMultiple Choice

Building Vocabulary: Word Roots, Affixes, and Reference Materials — Cumulative exam

Question 6 • English 12 A.1 - F26 - Joseph Ramirez

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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