Renaissance Guided Notes
What major cultural movement emphasized human potential and classical learning during the Renaissance?
What is Humanism?
In what city was Shakespeare born?
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
Who first sees the Ghost on the castle walls?
Who are Marcellus and Bernardo?
Impressed by the players, Hamlet asks if they can put on a certain play.. What is it?
What is The Murder of Gonzago?
What is the definition of “plot” in literature?
What is the sequence of events in a story?
What invention greatly increased the spread of Renaissance ideas?
What is the printing press?
When was Shakespeare born?
What is April 23, 1564?
What does the Ghost ask Hamlet to do?
What is avenge his murder?
Who summons Hamlet after he is left alone at the end of the play?
Who is Gertrude?
What term describes the struggle between opposing forces that drives the plot forward?
What is Conflict?
Renaissance thinkers believed in balancing religious faith with what other pursuit?
What is reason or rational thought?
What type of play is Hamlet—comedy, tragedy, or history?
What is a tragedy?
Why does Polonius send Reynaldo to Paris?
What is to spy on laertes?
At the end of Act IV, Horatio reads a letter from Hamlet stating that his ship had been captured by … What?
What is Pirates?
What is the key difference between plot and theme?
What is: Plot is what happens; theme is the message or deeper meaning behind what happens.
What does the term Renaissance mean?
What is Rebirth?
What poetic pattern does Shakespeare often write in—10 syllables, unstressed-stressed?
What is iambic pentameter?
100 Bonus Pts: If can clap it out.
In Act 2, Polonius believes he has discovered the cause of Hamlet’s “madness.” What does he think it is?
What is Ophelia’s rejection of him?
Why is Ophelia warned by Laertes about Hamlet?
What is Laertes feels that Ophelia is being used.
A plot that includes flashbacks, out-of-order events, or multiple time streams is called what?
What is a Non-linear Plot?
What were the fates of King Henry VIII’s wives?
What is: 2 died, 2 were beheaded, 2 survived
Extra 100pts if can name the order.
What was the name of Shakespeare’s wife?
Who is Anne Hathaway?
Who does Hamlet accidentally kill behind the arras?
Who is Polonius?
Who is the first to be informed that Hamlet has returned to Denmark? (think about who he trusts)
Who is Horatio?
What is the purpose of the exposition in a narrative?
What is to introduce setting, characters, and basic conflict?
100 Bonus pts for who can name to part of Hamlet which is the exposition.