Read the excerpt from act ii of hamlet. guildenstern: prison, my lord! hamlet: denmark’s a prison. rosencrantz: then is the world one. hamlet: a goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, denmark being one o’ the worst. in this excerpt, hamlet compares denmark to a prison. which statement best describes the effect of this metaphor? it indicates that hamlet feels trapped. it reveals that hamlet is being forced to stay. it proves that hamlet’s father was killed. it shows that hamlet imagined the ghost.

A) It indicates that Hamlet feels trapped.

Explanation: a metaphor is a figure of speech that consists in making a direct comparison between elements that aren't obviously related, in order to create an image in the reader's mind. In the given excerpt from Act II of "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, we can see a metaphor that compares Denmark to a prison, this metaphor is used to indicate that Hamlet feels trapped in Denmark.

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