Read the excerpt from Hamlet. Hamlet: The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember’d.

When Hamlet refers to Ophelia as a nymph, this is an example of a(n)

It’s figurative language, specifically a metaphor. A metaphor is where an author says that something is something else, for example ‘she was a ray of sunshine’. Here, Hamlet is saying that Ophelia is a nymph. It’s a metaphor because Ophelia is not literally a nymph.

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