Character
Hamlet's friend
Who is Horatio
The literal meaning of renaissance
What is "rebirth"
the soldiers/guards want to tell this person about the ghost in the castle
Who is Prince Hamlet
a statement that seems contradictory but actually reveals an element of truth
what is a paradox
Who said, "To thine own self be true"
Who is Polonius
Hamlet's uncle
Who is King Claudius
Made an alliance with Spain by marrying his son to Princess Catherine of Aragon
Who is King Henry VII
Horatio brings Hamlet what news?
What is that King Hamlet's ghost is in the castle
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. often a comparison
what is a metaphor
Who said, " With an auspicious and dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage
In equal weighing delight and dole,
taken a wife.
who is King Claudius
Hamlet's mother
Who is Gertrude
what sparked the reformation
a 95 theses arguing corruption from the church by Martin Luther
King Claudius murdered King Hamlet and to seek vengeance
word choice
what is diction
What is Hamlet upset about that he expresses in his soliloquy
that his father is dead and his mother has married his uncle two months later
murdered prior to the beginning of the play
Who is King Hamlet
a movement for religious reform
What is reformation
Hamlet makes Horatio swear to two things
1. to NOT reveal the events of the night in the castle and to go along with Hamlet if he pretends to be crazy.
What literary device is being used in the lines:
"a little more than kin, and a little less than kind"-
paradox
What does young Fortinbras want to do?
regain the lands his father had lost
the Prince of Demark
Who is Hamlet (Jr.)
persecuted protestants and brought back Roman Catholicism
Who is "Bloody Mary"
Neither borrow or lend money to a friend because you can lose the friendship as well as the money, and borrowing turns a person into a spend thrift.
Whose advise is this and to whom are they speaking?
Polonius to his son Laertes
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
what is a soliloquy
Who said? "The canker galls the infants of the spring
Too oft before their buttons be disclosed.
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Contagious basements are most imminent" -
Who is Laertas