Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.

Guildenstern: Happy in that we are not over happy;
On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.

Hamlet: Nor the soles of her shoe?

Rosencrantz: Neither, my lord.

What is being personified in this excerpt?

delight
prosperity
fashion
footwear

Prosperity.

Explanation:

Personification is a literary technique when the author uses/ gives human attributes to a non-living, abstract idea. This ability to make the idea seem like a person of it's own gives the chance to identify it as it's own being.

In Act II scene ii of the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, the characters of Hamlet is in conversation with his two childhood friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who have just arrived to meet him. Hamlet had inquired about their well being when they replied that they are happy in that they are not to happy, lucky for they were not too lucky either. In the given excerpt from the text, the conversation is about the prosperity of the two men in their lives.

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the price of our current war is high; it costs money and it costs lives.

but it does not cost our pride. it does not cost the guilt that would arise from knowing that we did nothing to intervene while our neighboring nations fell to despotic leaders.

it does not cost the terror of knowing that our allies are unstable. it does not cost the fear that we, too, will be next to fall.

which sentence most accurately explains why the speaker's use of the parallel structure is effective in this passage?

a. it underscores that disagreement will not be tolerated and will be dealt with swiftly.

b. it makes the speaker seem like a decisive and capable leader.

c. it emphasizes reasons to fight and inspires listeners to aid the war effort.

d. it establishes the speaker's credibility by acknowledging the difficulties of war.