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Part A
Sample Answer: • A well-meaning politician from a small town gets elected to a major office and has to confront pressure to engage in corrupt acts
• A 15-year-old girl witnesses a criminal act and has to decide whether to tell her parents or the authorities, although sharing this information might put her in danger
When he says "Denmark's a prison", Hamlet is using a metaphor. A metaphor is a word or expression that means something different from their literal meaning. This figurative language is telling us that, like a person who is in prison, Hamlet also feels as if he were trapped and watched the whole time.
Two other sentences that are using figurative language as well, are the following:
"<u>To be or not to be</u>", is a parallel structure, that is, when we are using the same pattern of words, to show that those words or ideas bear the same importance.
"<u>Despised love</u>", is an oxymoron, which is a kind of speech containing words that seem to contradict each other.
Metaphysical poetry in the seventeenth century broke away from conventions of lyrical poetry. The difference is apparent in the choice of cacophonous imagery...
Johnson put five poets in this category: John Donne, Andrew Marvel, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Henry Vaughan. However, they never worked as an organized literary movement. They didn't even read each other. It is only today that we can consider them akin.
As for cacophonous imagery, it was one of their foremost characteristics. The word choices and similes would often be shocking and unusual, not just for their own time but even later. For example, comparing two lovers' souls with two compasses in Donne's A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.
What is the passage called for this?
