Plot
What happens to Ophelia?
What device is "the serpent that did sting thy father's life / now wears his crown"?
Metaphor
What theme is present in Hamlet's quote "I am mad north-north west; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw"?
Madness
Name one of Hamlet's foils.
Fortinbras / Laertes
Who is Hamlet talking about when he says "Get thee to a nunnery?"
Ophelia
Where is the main part of the play set?
Denmark
What devices is "to be or not to be"?
Antithesis
What theme is present in the quote "something's rotten in the state of Denmark"?
Corruption
Name Hamlet's confidant
Horatio
Who says the following quote: "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. / Words without thoughts never to heaven go?"
Claudius
How does Claudius kill King Hamlet?
Poison in the ear
What literary device is present in the quote "My offense is rank, it smells to heaven"?
Hyperbole
What Catholic idea does the Ghost represent?
purgatory
Yorick
What is the first line of the play?
"Who's there?"
Why is Hamlet sent to England?
What is the device present in the quote "I must be cruel only to be kind"?
Paradox
What theme is present in the contrast between Hamlet's character/actions and Fortinbras' character/actions?
Classical man/hero vs Renaissance man
Name one of Hamlet's college friends.
Rosencrantz and/or Guildenstern
What is Hamlet referencing when he says the following: "There are more things in the heaven and earth, Horatio, / than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
The ghost of King Hamlet
Name three characters who are trying to avenge their fathers.
Fortinbras / Hamlet / Laertes
What literary device is present in Hamlet's first soliloquy? "Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she -- / O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason / would have mourned longer "
Aposiopesis
In the graveyard scene, Hamlet concludes that death is...
the great equalizer
Who assumes rule of Denmark once the play is over?
Fortinbras
At the end of the play, Hamlet gives an answer to his famous soliloquy. What is it?
"Let be."/"Let it be."