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
shadows and dreams by using similes.
B
dreams and ambition by using metaphors.
C
substance and dreams by using personification.
D
ambition and substance by using apostrophes.
Explanation
The characters compare ambition to a dream and a dream to a shadow, then describe ambition as “a shadow’s shadow.” These comparisons are metaphors: they describe one thing as another without using “like” or “as.” So the excerpt describes dreams and ambition by using metaphors.
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