
Hamlet Project
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- Q1A statement that contradicts itself. Ex:"A bloody deed? Almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king and marry with his brother."-Act 3 Scene 4RepetitionSimileParadox45s
- Q2The analogy between two things to show how one resembles the the other in the same way. Ex: ""O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain."-Act 3 scene 4 page 7Metaphor45s
- Q3Define Couplet Example:"Be wary, then. Best safety lies in fear. Youth to itself rebels, though none else near."-Act 1 Scene 2 pg.2A stanza which is one verse that holds alliterationA stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse that usually rhymeA stanza consisting of four versesA stanza where you just tell the story of how your life is falling apart45s
- Q4Foil EX: Gertude (Incest, Sexual, Open) vs. Ophelia (avoids-heartache and sex)A character that shows their persona through the looksA character that has characteristics that oppose another characterA character that's the good person45s
- Q5A dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections. EX:" o be, or not to be? That is the question— Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,"Soliloquy45s
- Q6THE FEELING WHICH IS BEING SHOWN BY THE WAY SOMEONE SPEAKS OR ACTS. Ex: "In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself."-Act 4 Scene 3 Pg.2Tone45s
- Q7EXTERNAL CONFLICT Ex:"By heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me. I say, away!—Go on. I’ll follow thee."- Act 1 Scene 2 Pg.4 (MARCELLUS and HORATIO)The struggle between the main character and another character or an outside forcelThe struggle between the main character and mentorThe struggle the main character has in their internal thoughts45s
- Q8THE CONFLICT WITHIN THE MAIN CHARACTER Ex:"My God! Everything I see shows me how wrong I am and tells me to hurry up and get on with my revenge. What is a human being if he just eats and sleeps?"-Act 4 Scene 4External ConflictIntern conflictInternal Conflict30s
- Q9An ordinary form of language that has no metrical structure, imitating the spoken language. Ex:"O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."-ACt 2 Scene 2 pg.11Prose45s
- Q10An unrhymed verse where it has unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable. Ex: "That I distrust you. Yet though I distrust, Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must."- Act 3 Scene 2 pg.8Blank Verse45s
- Q11An unrhymed verse with five feet or accents, each foot having an accented and unaccented syllable. Ex: "To be, or not to be? That is the question"-Act 3 Scene 1 pg. 3Iambic Pentameter45s
- Q12correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. Example:"Foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth's o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes." found act 1 scene 3rhyme30s
- Q13the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Example: "with us to watch.” “Therefore I have entreated him along, With us to watch the minutes of this night.” found act 1 scene 1alliteration30s
- Q14the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. Example: "extorted treasure in the womb of the earth," found act 1 scene 1personification30s
- Q15in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ). Example: "For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come " found act 3 scene 1assonance45s