?Marry, well said, very well said.?- Polonius, Here Polonius is blending his words to where his words rhyme.
?Or then, or then, with such or such.?- Polonius, Here Polonius is doing the same as with the first sentence.
?Why day is day, night night, and time is time.?- Polonius, He likes to make his words rhyme.
Metaphor
?You are a fishmonger.?- Hamlet, He is telling Polonius that he doesn?t mean anything to him.
?How pregnant sometimes his replies are!?- Polonius, He is saying his words are sometimes too full to explain.
?Nor the soles of her shoe?- Hamlet, Here he is talking about filling the soles of fortunes shoes.
Allusion
?On fortunes cap we are not the very button.?- Guildenstern, He is saying that they are not that important.
?When Rosclus was an actor in Rome.?- Hamlet, He is comparing it to an actor.
?If you call me Jepthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passing well.?- Polonius, He is telling Hamlet that if he compares him to Jepthah he must have a daughter he loves very much and yes he does.
Oxymoron
?And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.?- Polonis, Saying tediousness and flourishes in a sentence to compare two things.
?But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.?- Queen, She is calling Hamlet (the prince) a poor wretch.
?Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.?- Hamlet, He is saying even tough he is the prince he is still poor in manner and such.
Alliteration
?You, laying these slight sullies on my son.?- Saying that these sullies he lays are not the problem.
?Give first admittance to th? ambassador?- Let the ambassador in first.
?Words, words, words.?- Words mean nothing.
Simile
?But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips as are companions noted and most known-
To youth and liberty.?- Saying youth is wild.
?Faith, no, as you may season it in the charge you must not put another scandal on him.?- Don?t blame him for anymore he has enough faults.
? As it did seem to shatter all his bulk.?- Saying Hamlet has now become week.
Personification
?The flash and out break of a fiery, a savageness in unreel armed blood.?-
?Their eyes purging thick amber and plum tree gum.?- Saying their eyes look like thick ambers from anger.
? When I had seen this hot love on the wing.?- Saying love is right there in the palm of their hands.
