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Hamlet's family
Polonius' Family
Terms
Pot Pourri
Quotes
100
The name of the Castle where all the events in the play take place.
What is Elsinore?
100
Polonius' daughter; Hamlet's girlfriend
Who is Ophelia?
100
A part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on stage, intended only for the audience.
What is an aside?
100
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and what happens to them?
They are Hamlet's friends who spy on Hamlet for the King. Hamlet has the King of England kill them.
100
He says "O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that teh Everlasting had not fixed His cannon 'gainst self slaughter." What does it mean?
Who is Hamlet?
200
The school that Hamlet was attending when his father was killed.
What is Whittenberg?
200
The country Laertes resides in. Polonius sends a spy there to check up on his son.
What is France?
200
A speech that is often used as a device in a drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
200
Ophelia hands these out to people after she goes crazy - they each represent something.
What are flowers?
200
He says "To be or not to be, that is the question, Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them; to die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause...." What does it mean?
Who is Hamlet?
300
The 2 reasons Hamlet hasn't killed himself so far.
What is it's a sin, and he doesn't know what will come next.
300
The reason, according to the gravediggers, that Ophelia is given a Christian burial even though her death is suspicious.
What is because she is a gentlewoman?
300
A word that has two meanings....rhymes with "fun"
What is a pun?
300
These are the two reasons that Claudius doesn't simply kill Hamlet himself.
What are 1) he is loved by the people and 2) he is loved by Gertrude.
300
He says "O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder." What does it mean?
Who is Claudius?
400
Hamlet's tragic flaw.
What is procrastination?
400
Reason that Polonius assumes Hamlet is crazy.
What is he assumes Hamlet is mad for Ophelia's love?
400
A reference in literature to anotehr story that the audience would typically have prior knowledge of (such as Claudius comparing his story to that of Cain and Abel).
What is an allusion?
400
He is angry because his father was killed in battle, and he wages war on Poland to get revenge. Hamlet admires him. Hamlet recommends that he become king with his dying breath.
Who is Fortinbras?
400
HE says "I am justly killed with my own treachery." What does it mean?
Who is Laertes?
500
The place from where Old Hamlet returns - he is there because he was killed without being able to confess his sins.
What is purgatory?
500
Polonius' job.
What is Lord Chancellor?
500
a literary technique used to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later on in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
The two names that the play-within-a-play are known as.
What are The Mousetrap and The Murder of Gonzago?
500
HE says "Up Sword, and knwo thos a more horrid hent, When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed, At hame, a-swearing, or about some act That has no relish of salvation in it, Then trip him that his heels may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damned and black As hell whereto it goes." What does it mean?
Who is Hamlet?