Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.He tells me, my sweet queen, that he hath found The head and source of all your son’s distemper.

The speaker directly addresses the queen as “my sweet queen.” A direct address to someone being spoken to is an apostrophe, so the correct choice is apostrophe. The line does not compare two things using “like” or “as,” so it is not a simile.

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