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famous lines
Lord Polonius
literary device
Rhetorical Strategies
Spies
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Hamlet says this when Lord Polonius asks him what he reads
What is "words ,words,words,
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daughter of Polonius who rejects Hamlet's letters
Who is Ophelia?
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"That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity"
What is alliteration
100
chiasmus
What is "Thus it remains, and the remainder thus"?
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spied for Lord Polonius on Laertes
Who is Reynaldo
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Lord Polonius' response to Ophelia describing the closet scene
What is "this is the very ecstasy of love "
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Reynaldo
What is the name of the servant who travels to France to spy on Polonius's son?
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"Happy in that we are not over happy?"
What is a pun
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"Hath there been such a time—I would fain know that— That I have positively said, “'Tis so,” When it proved otherwise?"
What is ethos
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where the King and Queen of denmark hid to spy on Hamlet
What is behind the curtain
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Lord polonius' aside when with hamlet
What is "though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
300
This is what Polonius commands Ophelia to do to Hamlet's letters
not to read them and reject them
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"Pale as his shirt"
What is simile
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'douby thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt i love.
What is pathos
300
the spies for the king and queen to spy on Hamlet
Who is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
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Polonius wants to find out the reason of Hamlet's madness
What is "That we find out the cause of this effect?"
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Polonius asks Ophelia this when she explains the closet scene to him
What is "mad for thy love?"
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"And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure"
What is irony
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Why day is day, night night, and time is time
What is tautology
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the reason for hamlets madness acording to Lord Polonius
What is madness for Ophelia's love
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Queen Gertrude's comment on the way Lord Polonius speaks
What is "More matter ,with less art "
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Hath there been such a time—I would fain know that— That I have positively said, “'Tis so,” When it proved otherwise?
Polonius is trying to prove his honesty to Gertrude and Claudius
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How pregnant sometimes his replies are! A happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will leave him, and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter. My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.
What is an aside
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words words words
What is litote
500
The two reasons for Hamlets madness according to his mother
What is His fathers death and his mothers quick remarrige to his uncle