Read the excerpt from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; This excerpt is an example of heroic couplet. free verse. blank verse. common meter.

Blank verse is the poem that is written in 'iambic pentameter' but has no rhyme. It will have 10 syllables in each line (pentameter) with 5 stressed and 5 unstressed syllables like an iambic pentameter. But there will be no rhyme in the poem.

This is not a free verse, Option B because it has iambic pentameter. Free verse poem has no rhyme and no meter. It has line breaks as well.

William Shakespeare mostly uses blank verse in his poems.

jayilych4real jayilych4real · Answer 2 · 2021-12-07T10:57:49+01:00

Based on the given details, the excerpt is an example of:

C. Blank verse

According to the given question, we are asked to state the name which is given to the excerpt and what type of literary element was predominantly used in the poem and what it is called.

As a result of this, we can see that the narrator makes use of blank verse when he writes using iambic pentameter without using rhymes and they contain ten syllables per line which are broken down into five stressed and unstressed syllables

Therefore. the correct answer is option C