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A pre-test quiz on literary devices in Hamlet, Acts 1-3
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For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ (Hamlet 2.2)
allusion (biblical)
hyperbole
transferred epithet
personification
2
“O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!“
anaphora
transferred epithet
metaphor
hyperbole
3
Your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth. (Polonius 2.1)
personification
paradox
metaphor
hyperbole
4
Help, angels! Make assay. (Claudius 3.3)
alliteration
pun
apostrophe
personification
5
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. (Hamlet 3.1)
cacophony
metaphor
alliteration
imagery
6
These words like daggers enter in my ears! / No more, sweet Hamlet! (Gertrude 3.4)
imagery
personification
allusion
simile
7
Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel, / Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe!
apostrophe
metaphor
allusion
simile
8
Frailty, thy name is woman! (Hamlet 1.2)
pleonasm
transferred epithet
anaphora
apostrophe
9
What a piece of work is man! … in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god:
tricolon
simile
antithesis
apostrophe
10
And with a look so piteous in purport / As if he had been loosed out of hell.
simile
hyperbole
alliteration
personification
11
The expectancy and rose of the fair state,The glass of fashion and the mould of form
synecdoche
personification
metonymy
metaphor
12
Not so my lord. I am too much in the sun. (Hamlet 1.2)
pun
antithesis
personification
nosism
13
… we will fetters put about this fear, / Which now goes too free-footed. (Claudius 3.3)
personification
pleonasm
alliteration
nosism
14
I will speak daggers to her, but use none. (Hamlet 3.2)
metaphor
allusion
apostrope
metonymy
15
… she followed my poor father's body / Like Niobe, all tears…
personification
allusion (classical)
simile
transferred epithet
16
Denmark’s a prison. (Hamlet 2.2)
pun
metaphor
hyperbole
personification
17
I must be cruel to be kind. (Hamlet 3.4)
paradox
chiasmus
pun
metonymy