Critical approaches to Hamlet amuse their rulers with their inventive language. Osric and Polonius seem to especially respect this suggestion. Claudius' speech is full of rhetorical figures, as is Hamlet's and, at times, Ophelia's, while Horatio, the guards, and the gravediggers use simpler methods of speech. Claudius demonstrates an authoritative control over the language of a King, referring to himself in the first person plural, and using anaphora mixed with metaphor that hearkens back to Greek political speeches. Hamlet seems the most educated in rhetoric of all the characters, using anaphora, as the king does, but also asyndeton and highly developed metaphors, while at
Failure to refer Any sentence in which we attach a predicate to the name "Genghis Khan" is true if the predicate obtained in the actual world. Any sentence in which the predicate does not obtain for Genghis Khan is false. The Wikipedia statement “"Genghis Khan founded the largest contiguous empire in world history"” is thus true, and the statement “"Genghis Khan was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London"” is false. As an example for a name that fails to refer to a real object, Russell used “"the present king of France"“ in a 1905 article. According to the Russellian