Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O! vengeance! The figurative language in these lines is an example of

The speaker directly addresses “vengeance,” an abstract idea, with the exclamation “O! vengeance!” Addressing an absent person or an abstract concept as if it were present is apostrophe. The line is not a simile or metaphor because it does not make a comparison.

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