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What is the effect of the figurative language used in this excerpt? Check all that apply.

EXCERPT: But I am pigeon-liver’d, and lack gall
To make oppression bitter, or ere this
I should have fatted all the region kites
With this slave’s offal. Bloody, bawdy villain!
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
O! vengeance!
Why, what an a** am I! This is most brave
That I, the son of a dear father murder’d,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and heII,
Must, like a wh*re, unpack my heart with words,
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,
A scullion!

A.) It reveals Hamlet’s anger with himself.
B.) It reveals Hamlet’s love for Ophelia.
C.) It reveals Hamlet’s plan for vengeance.
D.) It reveals Hamlet’s hesitation to act.
E.) It reveals Hamlet’s distrust of Gertrude.
F.) It reveals Hamlet’s vision of the ghost as real.

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Answer:

A. It reveals Hamlet’s anger with himself.

D.It reveals Hamlet’s anger with himself.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer:

A.) It reveals Hamlet’s anger with himself.

D.) It reveals Hamlet’s hesitation to act.

Step-by-step explanation:

Figurative language is a literary technique that allows the writer to use a form of communication that uses figures of speech to convey a message in a non-literal way, which needs interpretation and reasoning to be understood. This technique increases the expressiveness of literary texts, making it broader in meaning.

The text above used figurative language to express Hamlet's feeling of anguish about his own actions and decisions. For this reason, we can say that figurative language promoted the understanding of Hamlet's anger at himself and his hesitation to act.

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