Hamlet, Part 3: Figurative Language and Allusions

Question 9 • 650401 English IV S1 – POLLOCK, CARRIE F

Which of these lines uses a simile to make a comparison? Choose two answers.

Answer

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,

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