What literary device is used in Ophelia’s song from the play:

“He never will come again / His beard was as white as snow,/All flaxen was his poll/ He is gone, he is gone”

Question 4 options:

Personification

Simile

Allusion

Metaphor

Question 5 (1 point)
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Hamlet tells Horatio and Marcellus in Act I, scene v, that he is going to “put an antic disposition on”. What does this line tell the audience of Hamlet’s planned personality changes:

Question 5 options:

He plans to join an acting troupe composed of talented players.

He will pretend to love Claudius and forgive his mother even though he hates them both.

He plans to tell Bernardo about how burdened he feels now that he has been prompted to revenge.

He plans to pretend that he has gone mad.

Question 6 (1 point)
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When Hamlet is speaking to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act II, scene ii, he says, “I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.” What message is he attempting to convey to his old 'friends' and the audience?

Question 6 options:

He wants to go hunting with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern so that he can practice killing animals before he has to kill Claudius.

He is angered by the fact that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been sent by the King and Queen as spies.

Hamlet is saying that his madness changes like the weather, and that he is only mad some of the time.

The high winds in Denmark suggest the fact that chaos still reigns after the murder of the former King.

The simile in the excerpt is "His beard was as white as snow." A simile is a comparison between two things using like or as. In this simile the color of his beard is compared to the snow. As to the other options, personification is giving a nonhuman thing human-like traits. Everything in the excerpt is human. Allusion is a reference to another literary work. There is no reference. Metaphor is a comparison between two things without using like or as. This uses as so it is a simile and not a metaphor.

Question 5: He plans to pretend that he has gone mad.

When Hamlet talks about "an antic disposition", he means that he is going to change his mood to one of madness. It is important to remember that mad actually means insane or crazy, not angry.

Question 6: Hamlet is saying that his madness changes like the weather, and that he is only mad some of the time.

In this piece of dialogue Hamlet is speaking of his madness like it's the wind. The wind changes directions just like his madness can change. He is trying to tell his friends that his madness is not constant but instead changes.