Question

Which two phrases in this excerpt from act III, scene I, of Hamlet show Shakespeare's use of similes? If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. Farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell.

Answer 1

The line "Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow" is a phrase that uses simile.

Answer 2

1. Be thou as chaste as ice 2. as pure as snow

Step-by-step explanation:

A simile is a figurative language that aims to make the writing more colorful and interesting by using comparisons to describe an event, someone, a trait, a place, a quality, etc. And we can normally identify a simile because it has the words "like", "as" and "as in" in the sentence, as the excerpt shows.

Therefore, we can conclude that the author uses simile in these two phrases by comparing one thing to another ("chaste" to "ice", and "pure" to "snow") in order to describe how "thou" should be, and by using the word "as" when making this comparison.