Hamlet

What literary device is used in this quote? From Act 3, Scene 1

"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."

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Hamlet is using sleep as a metaphor for death.

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