Literary Devices
Paradox:  A Paradox consists of two statements expressing an apparent contradiction.� A paradox  challenges deeper thought on the matter.
Ex:� 1.2: Hamlet:  A little more than kin, and less than kind.
3.2: Ophelia:  Still better, and worse.
3.3: King:  My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
����� Simile:� This is the simplest and most commonly used literary device.� By use of  words as or like a similarity of one thing to another is expressed.
Ex:� 1.1: Hamlet:� In my minds eye, Horatio.
4.2: Hamlet:� Compounded, it with dust, whereto tis kin.����
4.2: Rosencratz: Do you regard me as a sponge?
����� Sarcasm:� involves a cutting humor in which the user may actually say they
Actually say the opposite of what he means.
Ex: 3.2: Hamlet: Lady, Shall I lie in your lap?
3.2: Hamlet: I mean, my head upon your lap.
3.2: Hamlet: Thats a fair thought to lie between maids legs.
����� Metaphor:  is an abridged simile.� It is a comparison omitting comparative words
Like as or like.
Ex: 1.1: Marcellus: It is like the air: you cannot hurt it.
1.3: Polonius: You speak like a green girl, unsifted in such perilous circumstances.
3.2: Hamlet: Methink it is like a weasel.
Symbol:  is a representation.� It is something that stands for or suggests something
Else.
Ex: 1.4: Hamlet: My fate cries out and makes each petty artery in this body, as hardy as the Nemean lions nerve.
4.3: Hamlet: A man can go fishing with the worm that fed off a king, and then eat the fish that ate that worm.
���� Personification: give a non-living object human qualities.
Ex: 1.3: Hamlet: The air bites shrewdly, its very cold.
5.2: Hamlet: The point envenomed too!
Hyperbole:� is an evident exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.
Ex: 3.2: Ophelia: You are as good as a chorus.
3.4: Hamlet: A bloody deed.� Almost as bad, good mother, as kill and marry with his brother.
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