Literary Elements
This is a literary element in which an author references another work to create relationships in a reader's mind between the other work and the author's own.
What is allusion?
This is communicated by the words a writer chooses when organizing their work (able to be heard in regular speech).
What is tone?
Hamlet's frequent use of this literary element to make comparisons between various characters in the play and mythological characters/concepts demonstrates that he is a learned, scholarly man.
What is allusion?
The unity of the English people against Spanish tyranny and Queen Elizabeth's resolve to trust them and fight for them would be this in the "Spanish Armada" speech.
What is main/central idea?
True or False: The below sentence demonstrates the correct grammatical use of a hyphen.
"Doctor Jones is a well-known archaeologist and adventurer."
What is false?
This is a literary element which can be used to give human qualities to a nonliving thing, such as death, nature, or abstract concepts.
The below statement demonstrates this literary element:
"We are going to kill Death."
What is paradox?
From instances such as his wedding speech and his calming of Laertes, we can assume that Claudius is effective as this.
What is politician? What is speaker? What is manipulator?
If Elizabeth were to ask her people to fight for the Crown, she would be asking them to support her as this.
What is monarch? What is queen? What is ruler?
True or false: the word "so" should be exchanged for the word "yet" in the below sentence.
"It was the widest-spanning conflict in human history, yet it was known as the Great War."
What is true?
Claudius's statement, "With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage," said during his wedding address to the court, demonstrates this literary element by joining opposite ideas together simultaneously.
What is paradox?
This is an elaborate, complex metaphor which compares two things that seem to be utterly unrelated; it usually links them on a logical level rather than visually.
What is metaphysical conceit?
In Act 1, Scene 2, Queen Gertrude urges Hamlet to stop mourning his father and drop his dark expression, asking:
"Do not forever with thy vailed lids / Seek for thy noble father in the dust."
This is the primary effect of using the metaphor "vailed lids" (veiled eyelids) to describe Hamlet.
A. It highlights how Hamlet’s physical eyesight is deteriorating.
B. It emphasizes how Hamlet is shielding and hiding his eyes in downward sorrow.
C. It suggests that Hamlet is secretly planning a rebellion against the king.
D. It foretells that Hamlet will soon lose his life on the battlefield.
What is B?
This is a question which is asked, not to receive an answer, but rather to make a certain point to the listeners.
What is a rhetorical question?
The dash in the below example should be moved to this location in the sentence.
"Gutenberg's mechanism provided an exciting new function mass production—of printed books and literature."
What is before "mass production?"
This literary element is used in public speaking when the speaker wishes to inspire certain feelings in her listeners and call them to action.
What is appeal to emotion/pathos?
This is a type of sonnet which has 14 lines, iambic pentameter, and an octave-sestet stanza division.
What is a Petrarchan Sonnet?
These two conflicts are revealed in Act I, Scene Two of Hamlet (Claudius's marriage address to the court and Hamlet's first, suicidal soliloquy).
What is Claudius thinking Hamlet's mourning is unmanly?
What is Hamlet's resentment for his mother and Claudius's marriage?
"I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust."
In the above excerpt, Queen Elizabeth attempts to persuade her people to stand and fight for her using this rhetorical tactic.
What is appeal to emotion/pathos?
True or false: the below sentence effectively uses formal language.
"Revenge is right because Laertes was kind of upset with Hamlet killing his father."
What is false?
"The Quarterback is the heart of the team, because without him, the team has no life!"
The above sentence demonstrates this literary element.
What is analogy?
John Donne uses this literary element by comparing the love he has for his wife to a compass's pair of legs.
What is metaphysical conceit?
Claudius's statement, "With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage," said during his wedding address to the court, is an example of these two conflicting feelings within him.
What is happiness to be king/be with Gertrude?
What is sadness at his brother's death?
"I know that I have the body of but a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England, too..."
Elizabeth uses this literary element in the above excerpt to inspire her subjects to fight for her in spite of her status as a queen rather than a king.
What is antithesis?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
Excluding Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, this is the order in which the main characters die in Hamlet.
What is
1. Polonius
2. Ophelia
3. Gertrude/Queen
4. Claudius/King
5. Laertes
6. Hamlet