Literary Terms
“... for yourself, sir, shall grow as old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward.”
What is a simile?
Stabbed while hiding behind a curtain
Who is Polonius?
An angsty teen who struggles with taking action
Who is Hamlet?
Ophelia dies by
What is drowning?
Hamlet was written by this person
Who is William Shakespeare?
“Unequal matched, Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide, But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword Th’ unnerved father falls.”
What is alliteration?
Dies from mistakenly drinking from cup of poison
Who is Gertrude?
Warns Hamlet not to abuse his mother, but to take revenge on Claudius
Who is King Hamlet?
Hamlet hopes the play within the play will
What is reveal Claudius's guilt?
The main setting of the play Hamlet is
What is Elsinore, Denmark?
“The King rises.” … “Give o’er the play.” … “Give me some light. Away!”
What is climax?
The first to leap in Ophelia’s grave
Who is Laertes?
The one truthful and honest character in Hamlet
Who is Horatio?
Hamlet does not kill Claudius when he is alone at prayer because
What is he does not want him to go to heaven?
Iambic pentameter is comprised of these
What are stressed and unstressed syllables?
“How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defense?”
What is comic relief?
Claims the rule of Denmark at the end of the play
Who is Fortinbras?
Old friends instructed to escort Hamlet to England
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
The point of the gravediggers scene is
What is to provide comic relief?
Promises to tell all that happened after Hamlet dies
Who is Horatio?
“...How the knave jowls it to the ground as if ‘twere Cain’s jawbone, that did the first murder!”
What is allusion?
The skull of a former court jester
Who is Yorick?
Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras have in common the fact that:
What is their fathers have been murdered?
The name Hamlet gives the “play within a play” is:
What is The Mousetrap?
A dramatic form of speaking where the character speaks to himself or expresses inner thoughts while onstage alone.
What is a soliloquy?