Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.

Guildenstern: Happy in that we are not over happy;

On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.

Hamlet: Nor the soles of her shoe?

Rosencrantz: Neither, my lord.

What is being personified in this excerpt?

delight

prosperity

fashion

footwear

Prosperity.

Explanation:

Personification is a literary technique when the author uses / gives human attributes to a non-living, abstract idea. This ability to make the idea seem like a person of it's own gives the chance to identify it as it's own being.

In Act II scene ii of the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, the characters of Hamlet is in conversation with his two childhood friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who have just arrived to meet him. Hamlet had inquired about their well being when they replied that they are happy in that they are not to happy, lucky for they were not too lucky either. In the given excerpt from the text, the conversation is about the prosperity of the two men in their lives.