“Seeing unseen” | Oxymoron |
“Tis too true” | Alliteration |
“To be or not to be” | Parallel structure |
“To die–to sleep–“ | Parallel structure |
“Despised love” | Oxymoron |
“Well, well, well” | Repetition |
“Be thou chaste as ice, as pure as snow” | Simile |
“You jig, you amble and you lisp” | Parallel structure |
“-all but one–shall live” | Foreshadow |
“Reason, like sweet bells jangled” | Simile/onomatopoeia |
“O, woe is me” | Metaphor |
“And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose” | Alliteration/parallel structure |
“It out-herods Herod” | Biblical allusion |
“Let your own discretion be your tutor” | Personification |
“Follow fawning” | Alliteration |
“Fortune’s finger” | Alliteration/personification |
“And my imaginations are as foul as vulcan’s stithy” | Simile/allusion |
“Brutus killed me.. It was a brute” | Pun |
“Suit of sables” | Alliteration |
“For O, for O” | Repetition |
“Marry, this is miching milicho” | Alliteration |
Full thirty times hath Phoebus’ cart gone round Neptune’s salt wash and Tellus’ orbed ground | Allusion |
“But poor validity.. Like fruit unripe..” | Simile |
“Grief joys, joy griefs” | Personification/oxymoron |
“Sweet leave me here” | Assonance |
“You are keen, my lord, you are keen” | Repetition |
“Thrice blasted, thrice infected” | Parallel structure |
“Frighted with false fire?” | Alliteration |
“No, my lord; rather with choler” | Repetition |
“Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you can not play upon me” | Imagery |
“When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out” | Personification |
“My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites” | Personification |
“.. this fear, which now goes too free-footed” | Alliteration/personification |
“It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t, A brother’s murder!” | Biblical allusion |
“To wash it white as snow” | Alliteration/simile |
“Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults” | Personification |
“Be soft as sinews of the new born babe” | Alliteration/simile |
“Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent” | Apostrophe/alliteration |
Queen: “hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended”Hamlet: “mother, you have my father much offended” | Parallel structure |
“Heaven’s face doth glow” | Personification |
“These words like daggers enter in mine ears” | Simile |
“I’ll lug the guts into the neighbor room” | Synecdoche |
Hamlet Act 3 Figurative language
July 19, 2019