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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
O! vengeance!
The figurative language in these lines is an example of
a metaphor.
a simile.
an apostrophe.
personification.
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an apostrophe.
Hamlet is directly addressing an absent/abstract thing ("O! vengeance!"), which is the defining feature of an apostrophe (not a simile or metaphor).
Hamlet is directly addressing an absent/abstract thing ("O! vengeance!"), which is the defining feature of an apostrophe (not a simile or metaphor).
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