Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet. Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. Which done, she took the fruits of my advice; An
d he, repulsed,—a short tale to make,— Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, Which of these lines is a metaphor? Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. Which done, she took the fruits of my advice; And he, repulsed,—a short tale to make,— Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,
The line from Act II of Hamlet which is a metaphor is the second choice: Which done, she took the fruits of my advice. Metaphor is a type of symbolic representation when one thing is referred to by mentioning another. So, if you say - He's a lion, you don't really mean that he is an animal, but rather strong and fearless. So here, the fruits of my advice aren't really any fruits, but rather the instructions that he had to give her.
The main idea of the passage above from Cotton Mather's "The Wonders of the Invisible World" is to justify the outcome of the trials. Thank you for posting your question. I hope this answer helped you. Let me know if you need more help.
