As you read the passage, highlight words that help you identify the tone. Ghost: Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,—
O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
So to seduce!—won to his shameful lust
The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
–Hamlet,
William Shakespeare
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