Hamlet
Emily Dickinson
Vocabulary
Author Context
Techniques
100

What school did Hamlet and Horatio attend and where?

Wittenburg University, Germany

100

Emily Dickinson's favourite metre.

Hymnody

100

A constructed rendering of a character or persona's interiority.

Mindscape

100

Emily Dickinson's flavour of Christianity

Calvinism

100

The technique Shakespeare abandons in Act 5

Soliloquy

200

What spurs Hamlet to meditate on the futility of humankind's lifelong endeavours?

The skull of Yorrick, his old jester.

200

"This is my letter to the Word" and "A Word dropped careless" are both examples of this.

Metapoetry

200

A composer's body of work

Oeuvre

200

Shakespeare's flavour of philosophical thinking.

Christian Humanism

200

Two techniques in:

"Hyperion to a Saytr" 

Classical Allusion

Antithesis (or juxtaposition)

300
'Revenge Protagonist' Character foils for Hamlet include: Laertes, Fortinbras and...

Pyrrus

300

What (and whose) poem is intertextually featured in "I died for Beauty"?

John Keat's "Ode to a Grecian Urn"

300

An imaginative representation of the known and real, utilising verisimilitude.

Mimesis

300

Shakespeare wrote Hamlet during the final years of the reign of this monarch (full title needed).

Queen Elizabeth I

300

Technique in

"To Hands I cannot see"

Synecdoche

400

Complete the quote: 

"Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer ... 

...the slings and arrows of life's misfortune"

400

Complete the quote: 

"Until the Moss had reached our lips -   ..."

"and covered up - Our names - "

400
An individual's social environment

Milieu

400
When Dickinson reaches the height of Transcendental knowledge, she will reach the ...

Circumference

400
Combined technique in:


"Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed" AND

"A foul and pestilent congregation of vapours"

Motif of disease and decay

500
Name the theorist, and the theory that is reflected in the quote:

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"

Satre's theory of Moral Relativism

500

Complete the quatrain:

"The Plenty hurt me - twas so new - 

Myself felt ill - and odd - 

As Berry ....

" ... of a Mountain Bush - 

Transplanted - to a Road--"

500
An adjective to describe a perception of the world that only takes your own view, without the consideration of others. 

Solipsistic

500
Name the two people who were involved in the posthumous publication of Emily Dickinson's poetry.

Mabel Louis Todd

Thomas Higginson

500

Technique in:

"Not so my Lord, I am too much i' the sun"

Paronomasia


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