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professor190 [17]
3 years ago
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet. Guildenstern: Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitiou

s is merely the shadow of a dream. Hamlet: A dream itself is but a shadow. Rosencrantz: Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow. In this excerpt, the characters describe the nature of dreams and ambition by using metaphors. shadows and dreams by using similes. ambition and substance by using apostrophes. substance and dreams by using personification.
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2 answers:
Digiron [165]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

A

Explanation:

bazaltina [42]3 years ago
5 0

Answer: dreams and ambition by using metaphors.

Explanation: As you know, a metaphor is acomparison between things that are not related with each other at first sight, that is why that In the given excerpt from Act II of "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, we can see the use of metaphors to compare and describe dreams (by comparing them to ambition and shadow: "Which dreams, indeed, are ambition" and "A dream itself is but a shadow") and ambition (by comparing it to a shadow's that can be: "and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow". Hope this helps.

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