What literary devices are used in the "To be or not to be" soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet?

s most celebratedis particularly full of metaphors and arresting visual images. We have
the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, taking arms against a sea of troubles (a mixed ,
since one does not take arms against a sea), the sleep of death, this mortal coil, the
whips and scorns of time, the undiscoverd country, and the pale cast of thought.

These metaphors and images lend a vivid quality to a speech which might easily have
been obscure, since it is philosophically rather abstract and comes to a monumentally depressing
conclusion (life is very bad and no one would bear it but for the possibility that death may be
even worse). Time and fate are repeatedly presented as weapons or instruments of oppression
while life itself is a burden, a fardel, under which suffering humanity grunts and
sweats.

The other principal literary device that is used throughout the
speech is repetition. This comes both in the form of...