Who's Who in Hamlet?
Literacy Devices
What's in a text?
Where did it come from?
Challenge yourself!
100

Hamlet

Who is the Prince of Denmark?

100

Onomatopoeia

What word makes the sound of its name?

100

Noun

What is a person, place, thing, or idea?

100

Source

What is a person or place information comes from?

100

Two words that make a comparison; one uses "like" or "as" and one does not

What is a metaphor and a simile?

200

Ophelia

Who is Polonius's daughter?

200

Personification

What gives human qualities to a non-human thing?

200

Verb

What is an action word or something you do?

200

Cite

What is to give credit to another author or contributor of a text that you used as a reference?

200

Two statements; one based on personal beliefs and options, one based of facts

What are subjective and objective statements?

300

Claudius

Who is the King of Denmark?

300
Hyperbole

What makes an extreme exaggeration to make a point?

300

Conjunction

What is a word used to join words or a group of words like a bridge? 

300

Quote

What is a group of words taken from a text or speech repeated by someone else?

300

Context clues; one gives you a similar situation to help find the meaning of a mystery word, one gives you an opposite situation to help find the meaning of a mystery word

What are synonym context clues and antonym context clues?

400

Gertrude

Who is the Queen of Denmark?

400

Verbal irony

What is when the speaker typically means the opposite of what they are saying?

400

Preposition

What shows the relationship or position of a noun to another word?

400

Quotation marks

What are squiggles used to mark off a direct quote or to mark off when someone is speaking?

400

Two forms of language; one goes beyond the literal meaning, one means exactly what the speaker is saying

What is the difference between figurative language and literal language?

500

Laertes

Who is Ophelia's brother?

500

Allusion

What is a passing or indirect reference to something?

500

Context clues

What are words or phrases that give you hints as to what a mystery or unknown thing in a text might mean?

500

Textual evidence

What is any evidence or proof from something you are reading that are used to support ideas, arguments, opinions or thoughts?

500

Three forms of dialogue in a text; one tells the story from one person's point of view, one is when the narrator addresses the reader(s) directly, one is when the narrator tells the story from one person's point of view

What is the difference between first person point of view, second person point of view, and third person point of view?

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