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    The document contains several quotes from Hamlet highlighting its use of literary devices such as metaphor, hyperbole, and personification. Key quotes discuss Hamlet being as pale as his shirt, his madness being dependent on the direction of the wind, and Polonius believing he has discovered the cause of Hamlet's madness which will be fruit at a great feast. The quotes serve to exemplify common literary devices used in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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    The document contains several quotes from Hamlet highlighting its use of literary devices such as metaphor, hyperbole, and personification. Key quotes discuss Hamlet being as pale as his shirt, his madness being dependent on the direction of the wind, and Polonius believing he has discovered the cause of Hamlet's madness which will be fruit at a great feast. The quotes serve to exemplify common literary devices used in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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    Hamlet Literary Device.

    Act 1, scene 2:
    A little month, or ere those shoes were old
    With which she followed my poor father’s body,
    LikeNiobe,all tears—why-she.

    Act 2, Scene 2(225)


    Into my grave?

    Act 2, Scene 2 (235)


    will more willingly part withal—except my life,
    except my life, except my life.

    Act 2, scene 2 (265)


    in which there are many confines,
    wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o’
    th’ worst.

    Act 2, scene 2 (400)

    I am but mad north-north-west. When the


    wind is southerly. (Hamlets madness is an act or he’s slowly losing his sanity).

    Act 2, Scene 1 (90)

    Pale as his shirt, (hamlet was as pale as his shirt). (Hyperbolic term)

    Act 2, Scene 2 (55)

    My news shall be the fruit to that great feast. (Metaphor) (Polonius believes that he
    has found the cause what makes Hamlet mad)

    Act 2, scene 2 (

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