Correct Answer:
Option 1. Personification
Personification means to attribute the human behavior or characteristic to something nonhuman. In the given sentence the human characteristic i.e. dance is being attributed to a nonhuman i.e. washing machine. Therefore, the literary device being used in the sentence is Personification.
To complete the sentence, the answer would be the word "gather". Assemble is a synonym for "gather". Assemble means to gather something or someone together. Other synonyms include: build, collect, meet and congregate. The word "assemble" comes from the Latin words "ad-" meaning to and "-simul" meaning together.
Although Hamlet has many positive traits, including intelligence and a strong sense of right and wrong, his indecision takes center stage as his most prominent and, ultimately fatal flaw displays the most effective use of the italicized transition word.
A. Although Hamlet has many positive traits, including intelligence and a strong sense of right and wrong, his indecision takes center stage as his most prominent and, ultimately fatal, flaw.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The major tragic flaw of the play Hamlet is protagonist's procastination. It was not his inability or Queen Gertrude or Ophellia but Hamlet's own thought to move his work because of the timing and situation but infact his own moral values and lack of strong revenge. For Hamlet, the unfortunate blemish isn't a character defect, for example, an excess of pride, aspiration, or desire. Rather, it is the choice he makes to act as per the apparition's solicitation and murder Claudius.
