Hamlet and Literary Devices
The literary device used in this quote, "The air is biting cold"
What is personification?
The act that includes the resolution of Hamlet
What is act 4?
The fallacy used when Hamlet discredits Polonius's arguments because he's old.
What is ad hominem/strawman?
The type of irony Hamlet himself makes most of when talking to everyone he hates.
What is verbal irony?
The two set of syllables where one is stressed and the other is unstressed
What is an iamb?
What if it tempts you to jump into the sea... or to the terrifying cliff that overhangs the water...the edge of the sea makes people feel despair... all they have to do is look into its depths and hear it roar far below.
What is imagery?
The part of the plot that includes the Mousetrap play where key character's views are confirmed or changed.
What is the climax?
The fallacy being used when Hamlet is saying he doesn't know if it's better to die or live and get revenge for his father.
What is an either/or fallacy?
The irony used when Polonius gets stabbed hiding behind the curtains.
What is situational irony?
The use of sharp humor that occurs before a tense scene in a play?
What is comic relief?
The literary device used in this quote, "How low we can fall, Horatio. Isn't it possible to imagine that the noble ashes of Alexander the Great could end up plugging a whole in a barrel?"
What is an allusion?
The plot point that includes the plan of Laertes and Claudius to kill Hamlet.
What is the falling action?
What is ad hominem OR false cause fallacy?
The irony used in the discussion that is heard between the Hamlet and the Ghost that no one in the play knows about.
What is dramatic irony?
The repetitive sound of five alternating stressed and unstressed syllables
What is Iambic Pentameter?
The literary device used in this quote, "It's locked away in my memory and you've got the key"
What is an implied metaphor?
What is the exposition and inciting incident?
The fallacy being used by Rosencratz and Guildenstern when they point out a play coming by to try and distract Hamlet in his venting to them.
What is red herring?
What is verbal irony?
The name of a long speech a character does when they are talking to themselves
What is a soliloquy?
The literary device used to show that the characters in the play have similar desires such as revenge and how that desire ultimately leads to these characters having similar fates in the end.
What is parallelism?
The plot point that is made up of the passing on of the story of Claudius through Horatio and the giving of the throne to Fortinbras.
What is the denouement?
What is an appeal to emotion?
The irony used when Hamlet explains how he survived in Act four while in England.
What is structural irony?
The short comments a character in a play makes when they talk to the audience.
What is an aside?