Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damn’d defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i’ the throat, As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? Which of these lines uses a simile to make a comparison?
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport In mincing with his sword her husband’s limbs, The instant burst of clamour that she made— Unless things mortal move them not at all— Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, And passion in the gods. What does the excerpt about Hecuba suggest about her state of mind?
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . Polonius: Well be with you, gentlemen! Hamlet: Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too; at each ear a hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts. What is the effect of Hamlet’s use of metaphor in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . But I am pigeon-liver’d, and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave’s offal. Bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O! vengeance! Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave That I, the son of a dear father murder’d, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion! What is the effect of the figurative language used in this excerpt? Choose two correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport In mincing with his sword her husband’s limbs, The instant burst of clamour that she made— Unless things mortal move them not at all— Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, And passion in the gods. Hecuba is a figure in Greek mythology who was married to King Priam. In the excerpt, she is shown grieving for her dead husband. What does this allusion suggest?
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damn’d defeat was made. What is the effect of the figurative language used in this excerpt? Choose three correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave That I, the son of a dear father murder’d, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion! Which of these lines uses a simile to make a comparison? Choose two correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann’d, Tears in his eyes, distraction in ’s aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! For Hecuba! Shakespeare’s allusion to Hecuba suggests that Hamlet
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . Polonius: Well be with you, gentlemen! Hamlet: Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too; at each ear a hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts. What is the effect of Hamlet’s use of metaphor in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . He tells me, my sweet queen, that he hath found The head and source of all your son’s distemper. The figurative language in these lines is an example of a metaphor and
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