Hamlet
Figurative Languages
Inferencing
Terms
Potpourri
100

The type writing or structure that is used in the speech, "To Be or Not to Be"?

What is a soliloquy? 

100

This is the comparing of two unlike ideas to make a point.

What is a metaphor?

100

This means to read between the line and find the author's subtext.

What is inferencing?

100

This is a type of conflict where the character fights through moral dilemma or choices.

What is internal conflcit or man vs self?

100

This is what margins should be in MLA formatting.

What is 1"?

200

This is a metophor is being used to mean death.

What is sleep?

200

This is giving a human characteristic to anything that is not human.

What is personification?

200

In the line, "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change would do me good" The word congenial means this. 

What is compatible or acceptable?

200

This is how the author feels about the subject they are writing about.

What is tone?

200

This consist of an author's last name and a page number that is a reference for a quote.

What is a citation.

300

This is the style of writing Skakespeare uses in most plays and typically is in iambic pentameter. 

What is blank verse? 

300

"I slept for a million hours," is an example of this figurative language.

What is hyperbole? 

300

This can be inferred about Beowulf from the following lines. "He leaped into the lake; would not wait for anyone's answer (help)" 

What is Beowulf is brave? 
300

This type of story structure is a when story is developed by letters or journal entries.

What is epistolary?

300

This specific type of conflict is when the prototagonist is fighting against law or rule that is unfair.

What is Man vs Society?

400

This is what Hamlet is contemplating during the speech of "to Be or Not to Be".

What is to commit suicide or not?

400

This uses the words like or as in order to make a literary comparison.

What is a simile?

400

"To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, that is the rub.  The word "rub" means this. 

What is an ostacle or a problem?

400

This is how a character is developed by what they say, do, think, or appear.

What is indirect characterization?

400

These are the 4 part of the paper heading in MLA format? 

What are name, teacher's name, class title, and date.

500

This is who conspired and murdered King Hamlet and now sits on the throne in Hamlet.

Who is Claudius?

500

Often Biblical references are often made in literature and are this type of figurative language

What is allusion?

500

In the sentence, "The truck ground up and away heading out of it all and the peasant plodded along on the ankle deep dust." The word plodded mean what?

What is trudged or drag?

500

This is a literary device that use the 5 senses to create rich expressions.

What is imagery?

500

This is to either entertian, inform, or pursuade a reader.

What is author's purpose?