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Question 50 • English Language Arts 12

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. In this excerpt, the characters describe the nature of

Answer
A
dreams and ambition by using metaphors.
B
ambition and substance by using apostrophes.
C
substance and dreams by using personification.
D
shadows and dreams by using similes.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet…