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From the passage extract, we can say that the play belongs to

A
a comedy
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a farce
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C
a tragedy
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D
a satire
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Solution

The correct option is D a tragedy
"Hamlet" is one of Shakespeare's famous tragedies and possibly even more famous is Hamlet's "To be or not be" soliloquy. The tone of the given passage is serious with statements like: "...to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;" All this support the claim that the passage belongs to the genre of tragedy. So, the answer is option c.

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