The following passage from Hamlet is an example of which dramatic element?

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub ….

dialogue
stage directions
soliloquy
personification

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Soliloquy. The definition is exactly what is happening here; an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

Hamlet is talking to himself out loud. 
I believe it is C) soliloquy. hope this helps! =^.^=