Hamlet, Part 3: Figurative Language

Question 1

allusions

Answer 1

a reference in a text to another well-known text, person, thing, or event

Question 2

apostrophe

Answer 2

an address to an absent person or to an object or idea

Question 3

metaphor

Answer 3

a direct comparison of two unlike things

Question 4

personification

Answer 4

the attribution of human qualities to animals, objects, or abstract concepts

Question 5

simile

Answer 5

a comparison that uses a comparative word, such as “like” or “as”