How does Shakespeare use literary devices to portray Gertrude's relationship with Hamlet in Act 1 Scene 2?

Shakespeare uses both
dialogue and to express 's anguish at
his mother's quick remarriage to a manconsiders unworthy of her.

When she gently chides him in court for moping around in such a
grief-stricken way, suggesting he get over his father's death, Hamlet uses the literary devices
of and to try to explain to his
mother that the grief he shows is far less than the grief he feels internally. Imagery is
description using the five senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell, while metaphor is a
comparison not using the words like or as. Hamlet employs imagery when he talks of his
"inky cloak" and "suits of solemn black." We can picture him in our mind's
eye dressed all in black for mourning. He uses metaphor when he compares his crying to "the
fruitful river in the eye." A river is a large body of water and so expresses how hard he
has been crying. "Fruitful" suggests that expressing his grief has been helpful to
him.

He also uses , or reference to classical
literature, when he compares his father toas like "Hyperion to a satyr." Hyperion is a
sun god in Greek mythology, while a satyr is an oversexed half human/half beast.

In his soliloquy, Hamlet conveys his deeper anguish and anger at his mother. This he
can't state openly saying that although it breaks his heart, he must keep quiet. Here, he uses
allusion again, comparing his mother's tears to Niobe's, who mourned her children, but with the
suggestion that 's tears are false. He also uses allusion to make a
hyperbolic or exaggerated statement (as he did as well with
"Hyperion to a satyr") when he says Claudius is no more like his father than he, the
young Hamlet, is like Hercules.

Finally, in his soliloquy, Hamlet expresses
his deeper anguish through interjection, a short exclamation that
expresses emotion, when he uses an "O," saying:

O most wicked speed, to post

With such
dexterity to incestuous sheets!

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