| “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