Hamlet
Rhetorical Devices
Literary Devices
Essay Writing & Grammar
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100
Which character shares the stage with Old Hamlet's ghost but is unable to see it?
Gertrude
100
"The broken window was the entrance in which the thieves crept." This complicated phrasing is an example of what rhetorical device?
Abnormal word order
100
In Macbeth, a sudden and violent wind picks up on the night of Duncan's murder. What is the term for this example of plot reflected in the natural world?
Pathetic fallacy
100
What is the term for the following punctuation error? I had an amazing long weekend, did your family go away?
Comma splice - joining two separate sentences with a comma instead of separating them with a period.
100
What US state was rocked by a two-kilometre wide tornado yesterday?
Oklahoma
200
In what country do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die?
England
200
What rhetorical device is used in the following example? "You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
Reversal or chiasmus
200
The title "The Great Gatsby" is applied to the story of a man who dies loveless and alone. What device has the author used here, by applying a title that implies the exact opposite of its actual meaning.
Verbal irony
200
What is the term for the following punctuation error? Considering he had everything he ever wanted.
Sentence fragment - an incomplete thought. What about the fact that he had everything he ever wanted?
200
Toronto mayor Rob Ford was in the news last week when allegations surfaced that a video exists of him partaking in what illegal act?
Smoking crack cocaine
300
What is significant about the city of Wittenberg?
This is the place where Hamlet has been attending school prior to his father's death.
300
What rhetorical device is used to create the following old saying? "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it's probably a duck."
Parallel structure
300
"Friends, Romans, countrymen - lend me your ears!" What literary device is Mark Antony using in this line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
Metonymy - he probably wants these people to lend him their attention, not their ears specifically.
300
What formal essay-writing error has been committed in the following sentence?: Hamlet's fatal flaw isn't that he procrastinates, it's that he over-analyzes every situation until the opportunity to act has passed.
Use of contractions (isn't and it's)
300
What new technological toy will be revealed today at 1pm?
X-Box
400
Which of Laeretes' and Claudius' schemes actually succeeds in killing Hamlet?
The poisoned-tipped sword.
400
What rhetorical device is used to create the following line from Julius Caesar: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
Balanced sentence OR opposites
400
What is the term for repetition of a word or words at the beginning of a sentence or successive idea, such as "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul"?
Anaphora
400
The following is an example of passive voice. Rewrite the sentence so that it uses the formal essay-appropriate active voice. "The gym was decorated by the prom committee."
The prom committee decorated the gym.
400
Name ONE of the eight new sports being considered for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Baseball/softball, squash, inline speed skating, rock climbing, wakeboarding, karate, kung fu and wrestling.
500
After his exile, Hamlet is returned to Denmark by a group of ________________.
Pirates
500
What rhetorical device is used in the following quotation from the film The Lion of Winter? "We are the origins of war--not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government--not any other thing. We are the killers."
Polysyndenton
500
"My father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules." Identify the speaker of this quote AND the two literary devices used.
Hamlet; a simile and an allusion
500
What formal essay-writing error is committed in the following example? It is unclear whether Gertrude was complicit in Claudius' murder, or if she was genuinely unaware that she had married her husband's killer.
Plot details are recounted in past tense
500
What musician was loudly booed at the Billboard Music Awards this weekend, interrupting his/her acceptance speech for the Milestone Award?
Justin Bieber
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