Hamlet
What school did Hamlet and Horatio attend and where?
Wittenburg University, Germany
Emily Dickinson's favourite metre.
Hymnody
A constructed rendering of a character or persona's interiority.
Mindscape
Emily Dickinson's flavour of Christianity
Calvinism
The technique Shakespeare abandons in Act 5
Soliloquy
What spurs Hamlet to meditate on the futility of humankind's lifelong endeavours?
The skull of Yorrick, his old jester.
"This is my letter to the Word" and "A Word dropped careless" are both examples of this.
Metapoetry
A composer's body of work
Oeuvre
Shakespeare's flavour of philosophical thinking.
Christian Humanism
Two techniques in:
"Hyperion to a Saytr"
Classical Allusion
Antithesis (or juxtaposition)
Pyrrus
What (and whose) poem is intertextually featured in "I died for Beauty"?
John Keat's "Ode to a Grecian Urn"
An imaginative representation of the known and real, utilising verisimilitude.
Mimesis
Shakespeare wrote Hamlet during the final years of the reign of this monarch (full title needed).
Queen Elizabeth I
Technique in
"To Hands I cannot see"
Synecdoche
Complete the quote:
"Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer ...
...the slings and arrows of life's misfortune"
Complete the quote:
"Until the Moss had reached our lips - ..."
"and covered up - Our names - "
Milieu
Circumference
"Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed" AND
"A foul and pestilent congregation of vapours"
Motif of disease and decay
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
Satre's theory of Moral Relativism
Complete the quatrain:
"The Plenty hurt me - twas so new -
Myself felt ill - and odd -
As Berry ....
" ... of a Mountain Bush -
Transplanted - to a Road--"
Solipsistic
Mabel Louis Todd
Thomas Higginson
Technique in:
"Not so my Lord, I am too much i' the sun"
Paronomasia