VOCABULARY
CHARACTERS
ACT ONE MAJOR HAPPENINGS
SETTINGS
ACT ONE MISC.
100
This type of figurative language involves giving human qualities to fake or inanimate objects
What is personification
100
This individual is the advisor to King Claudius
Who is Polonius
100
These are the four characters who start out the play
Who is Francisco, Bernardo, Marcellus, and Horatio
100
This is the country where Hamlet takes place
What is Denmark
100
It has been about this long that King Hamlet has died and his wife has remarried King Claudius
What is a month and half to two months
200
This type of figurative language involves using like or as to compare two things.
What is a simile
200
This individual is the daughter of Polonius
Who is Ophelia
200
This individual originally went after King Hamlet but lost lands
Who is Fortinbras or Norway
200
This castle is where Claudius and Gertrude live
What is Elsinore
200
King Hamlet's ghost tells him to do this if he truly loves him
What is revenge his murder
300
This type of figurative language involves comparing things without using like or as
What is a metaphor
300
This individual is the son of Polonius
Who is Laertes
300
This individual goes after the new leaders of the country of Denmark to reclaim lands lost by his father
Who is Young Fortinbras
300
The King of this country is in a battle with Denmark
What is Norway
300
King Hamlet was really killed when his brother Claudius put this into his ears while he was napping
What is poison
400
This type of figurative language element involves a play on words
What is a pun
400
This individual is the author of Hamlet
Who is William Shakespeare
400
This individual disappears when the rooster crows
Who is the Ghost of Hamlet
400
The country of Denmark was told that King Hamlet was killed by this
What is a serpent
400
Hamlet tells Horatio and Marcellus to swear to this object that they will never reveal what they have seen during the night of Hamlet's encounter with the Ghost.
What is a sword
500
This type of figurative language involves referring to historical references
What is allusion
500
This individual is seen during the night watch
Who is the ghost of King Hamlet
500
These are the four reasons in Shakespeare's time that the spirit of a dead man would walk
What is to reveal a secret, to utter a warning, to reveal a hidden treasure, and to reveal the way it died.
500
At Castle Elsinore, Mercellus the guard states this famous quote?
What is, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
500
King Claudius's response to Hamlet's response of his father's death is this
What is all lives must die
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