Literary Devices
Allusion
Hamlet- Compounded it with dust, where to tis kin
Hamlet- Hide fox, and all after!
Irony
Hamlet- a king may go a process through the guts of a beggar.
Hamlet- That I can keep your counsel and not mine own
Simile
Laertes-O heavens, is't possible a young maid's wits should be as
mortal as
an old man's life?
Hamlet- He keeps them like an ape an apple in the corner of his jaw,
first
mouthed, to be last swallowed.
King- Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, as level as the cannon
to his
blank
King- O, my dear Gertrude, this, like to a murdering piece, in may
places
gives me superfluous death
Hamlet- Go to their graves like beds
Metaphor
Hamlet- When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you,
and,
sponge, you shall be dry again.
Queen- O'er whom his very madness, like some are among a mineral of
metals
base
Hamlet- The king is a thing.
Personification
King- The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch
Laertes- That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard, cries
"cuckold" to my father, brands the harlot even here between the chaste
unsmirched brow of my true mother.
Queen- So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in
fearing to
be split.
Queen- One woe doth tread upon another's heel, so fast they follow.
Alliteration
Ophelia- We know what we are but know not what we may be
King- Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved or
not at
all.
King- We should do when we would; for this "would" changes
Ophelia- Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny
Allusion
Ophelia- They say the owl was a baker's daughter
Hyperbole
King- His liberty is full of threats to all- to you yourself, to us, to
everyone.
Hamlet- But two months dead... a little month... within a month
Hamlet- Let me not burst in ignorance.
Imagery
King- The bark is ready, and the wind at help, th'associates tend, and
evrything is bent for England.
Laertes- By heaven, thy madness shall be paid with weight till our
scale
turn thy beam.
Symbolism
Horatio- I have words to speak in thine ear that will make thee dumb
Ophelia- There's rosemary, that's for remberance
     and there's pansies, that's for thoughts.
Scene from Shakespeare in Love
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                Literary Devices
Metaphor-

Act 1 Scene 2-‘Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed

Act 1 Scene 5-From the table of my memory

Act 4 Scene 6-A very ribbon in the cap of youth

Personification-

Act 1 Scene 2-Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes

Act 4 Scene 1-A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear

Act 4 Scene 5-When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions

Imagery-

Act 1 Scene 3-Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven

Act 4 Scene 5-Even between the chaste unsmirched brow of my true mother

Act 4 Scene 5-And where the offense is, let the great ax fall

Allusion-

Act 1 Scene 5-Yes, by Saint Patrick there is

Act 5 Scene 1-Dost though think Alexander looked o’ this fashion i’th’earth?

Act 5 Scene 1-Imperial Cesar, dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away