Read the excerpt from act ii of hamlet.
guildenstern: which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
hamlet: a dream itself is but a shadow.
rosencrantz: truly, and i hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow.
in this excerpt, the characters describe the nature of
a. dreams and ambition by using metaphors.
b. shadows and dreams by using similes.
c. ambition and substance by using apostrophes.
d. substance and dreams by using personification.

a. dreams and ambition by using metaphors.

A metaphor is a literary device that allows the author to identify similarities between two ideas. It is a common rhetorical device in which the author refers to one thing by mentioning another. In this case, the characters are describing dreams and ambition by comparing them to each other, while also comparing them to shadows.

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it