Hamlet
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Dracula
Grammar
100

This is the genre of Hamlet.

What is a tragedy?

100

I am so tired I could sleep for a year.

What is hyperbole?

100

It occurs when a statement or situation means something different from (or even the opposite of) what is expected.

What is irony?

100

This character is treated for brain fever in Buda-pest.

Who is Jonathon Harker?

100

It is the adverb in the sentence, "Rufus slowly placed a card on the card house."

What is slowly?

200

Fortinbras and Laertes serve as these for Hamlet.

What are foils?

200

He is the apple of my eye.

What is a metaphor?

200

A technique used in which a writer will plant clues or subtle indications about events that will happen later in the narrative.

What is foreshadowing?

200

These two things must be done in order to kill a vampire.

What are driving a stake through the heart and decapitating and filling the head with garlic?

200

It is the conjunction in, "Serena is afraid of heights so she will not go on the roller coaster."

What is so?

300

Hamlet tells her, "Get thee to a nunnery."

Who is Ophelia?

300

The branches bowed to the ground.

What is personification?

300

The implied attitude of the writer toward the subject or the audience.

What is the tone?

300

He writes, "At least God's mercy is better than that of these monsters, and the precipice is steep and high. At its foot man may sleep- as a man. Good-bye, all! Mina!"

Who is Jonathon Harker?

300

It describes a verb.

What is an adverb?

400

Hamlet accidentally killed this person, mistaking him for Claudius.

Who is Polonius?

400

Dewdrops dwell delicately.

What is alliteration?

400

Example: He was no Michael Jordan, but he could shoot a basketball.

What is an allusion?

400

This character takes on his father's title when he passes away.

Who is Arthur/Lord Godalming?

400

It is the coordinating conjunction in, "Sean wanted to learn to play the guitar, but his mother wanted him to learn piano."

What is but?

500

This person is the first to die in Act V due to a poisoned drink.

Who is Queen Gertrude?

500

I can't say I disagree with what you're saying.

What is litotes?

500

A type of poem that does not have any regular, recurring pattern of rhythm or rhyme.

What is free verse?

500

Elizabeth and Jonathon Harker name their child after this man.

Who is Quincey Morris?

500

It is punctuation used to join equivalent independent clauses.

What is a semicolon?