| your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth | polonius to reynaldometaphor |
| by indiscretions find discretions out | polonius to reynaldo antithesis |
| My Lord, as I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced, no hat upon his head, his stockings fouled, Ungartered and down-gyved to to his ankle, Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, and with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors- he comes before me. | ophelia to polonius periodic sentence |
| This must be known, which, being kept close, might move more grief to hide than hate to utter love. | polonius to ophelia slant rhyme |
| Heavens make our presence and practices pleasant and helpful to him | guildenstern to king and queen apostrophe |
| my news shall be the fruit to that great feast | polonius to king metaphor |
| Whereon Old Norway | voltemand to polonius and kingmetonymy |
| Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit | polonius to king and queen irony and personification |
| Mad, call I it | polonius to king and queen inverted syntax |
| When I had seen this hot love on the wing | polonius to king and queen metaphor |
| Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, thence to likeness | Polonius to king and queen anaphora |
| Let her not walk i’the sun | hamlet to polonius pun |
| into my grave | hamlet to polonius foreshadow and metaphor |
| -except my life, except my life, except my life. | hamlet to polonius tricolon |
| Denmark is a prison | hamlet to rosencrantz and guildenstern metaphor |
| O Jephthah | hamlet to polonius biblical allusion |
| The rugged Pyrrhus | hamlet to polonius and playersmythological allusion |
| Do you hear, let them be well used for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of that time | hamlet to polonius and players metaphor |
| That he should weep for her? what would he do | hamlet (soliloquy)chiasmus |
| He would drown the stage with tears | hamlet (soliloquy)hyperbole |
| And cleave the general ear with horrid speech | hamlet (soliloquy)synecdoche |
| Am I a coward? | hamlet (soliloquy) rhetorical question |
| The plays the thing wherein ill catch the conscience of the King | hamlet (soliloquy)couplet and metaphor |
Hamlet Act 2 Literary Devices
July 28, 2019