Which phrases in this excerpt from act III, scene I, of Hamlet show Shakespeare's use of similes?

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<span>Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, is the sentence which uses similes. Similes are figures of speech that compare one thing to another thing. In this sentence Shakespeare is comparing a person's character to ice that is as pure as snow. </span>

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Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow

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