Characters
Literary Elements
Theme
Plot
Essential Quotes
100
These two characters are executed in England.
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
100
"Marry, this is milching mallecho; it means mischief."
What is alliteration?
100
Hamlet's anger at his mother for marrying his father's brother best reflects this overall theme.
What is the theme of family relationships?
100
The suicide/death of Ophelia and subsequent plotting to kill Hamlet between Laertes and Claudius best represents this part of plot.
What is falling action?
100
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
Who is Marcellus?
200
This character serves as comic relief throughout the first three acts of the play.
Who is Polonius?
200
"See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself"
What is allusion?
200
The entire "To be or not to be" soliloquy best represents this major theme.
What is the mystery of death?
200
Hamlet's discussion with the ghost of his deceased father and his subsequent vow to enact revenge is best representative of this part of plot.
What is exposition?
200
"Thus was I, sleeping, Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd"
Who is the Ghost?
300
Name the five characters that die by poison throughout the play.
Who are ghost, Hamlet, Laertes, Claudius, and Gertrude?
300
"I will speak daggers to her, but use none"
What is personification? (Or, what is symbolism?)
300
Claudius' decision to play on Laertes anger against Hamlet best represents a twisting of this major theme.
What is revenge?
300
This event is generally considered by scholars to be the climax of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
What is the Hamlet's murder of Polonius?
300
"Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow?"
Who is the King/Claudius?
400
The first character that encounters Hamlet after he has decided to put on an "antic" or crazy disposition.
Who is Ophelia?
400
Laertes knows that Queen Gertrude has drank from the poison cup, but Hamlet does not.
What is dramatic irony?
400
Hamlet's decision not to murder his uncle Claudius while he is praying best represents this major theme.
What is relationship of thought vs. action?
400
Even though it appears in the third act, the reaction of Claudius to the plot of the Mouse Trap best represents this part of plot.
What is rising action?
400
"So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, Which have solicited- The rest is silence"
Who is Hamlet?
500
The court jester employed in Old Hamlet's court when young Hamlet was a child.
Who is Yorrick?
500
"Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, and batton on this moor?
What is metaphor?
500
Hamlet's creation of the Mouse Trap best represents these two major themes.
What is impossibility of certainty? What is the relationship between thought and action?
500
The play within the play (The Mouse Trap) has its own climax. This scene in "The Mouse Trap" best represents that climax.
What is Lucianus' poisoning of the player King?
500
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Who is the Queen/Gertrude?
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