Literary Elements
Family
In the End
Language
100
The literary term where words of opposite meaning are used together?
Oxymoron
100
The name of Hamlet's mother?
Gertrude
100
Ophelia is killed by this.
Drowning
100
This is when the characters do not speak in rhymes.
Prose
200
The literary device is used in the following sentence? "Not so, my lord: I am too much i' the sun"
Pun
200
Who killed Hamlet's father?
Claudius
200
Hamlet realizes that this evens all people out, no matter the status.
Death
200
What is death often referred to as in Hamlet?
Sleep
300
The literary term in which a statement seems to contradict itself but may be true?
Paradox
300
The name of Polonius' son?
Laertes
300
The grave diggers have this view of death.
Realistic
300
If Shakespeare uses "thou" on Hamlet than the characters are what?
Familiar with eachother
400
Shakespeare often alludes to this when talking about women in Hamlet.
The Garden of Eden or a serpent.
400
The names of Hamlet's two school friends?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
400
Hamlet and Laertes fight on her grave.
Ophelia
400
What is the hatred of women called?
Misogony
500
The literary element that represents the deadlock that Cladius and Hamlet are in at the end of Act 3?
Capping couplet
500
The name of the person who Polonius sent to spy on Laertes.
Reynaldo
500
He kills Gertrude, Clauidius, Ophelia, Laertes, and Polonius both directly and indirectly.
Hamlet
500
This is indicated if Shakespeare uses a set of rhymes before the end of a scene.
Death
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