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Hamlet Vocab
This is a vocab for hamlet
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pun | A joke that employs a play on words |
| Anaphora | Repetition of words in the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, sentences |
| Example: | So "LET FREEDOM RING" from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. "LET FREEDOM RING" from the mighty mountains of New York. "LET FREEDOM RING" from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania |
| Epistrophy | Reptition of one or more words at the end of the successive clauses, phrases, sentences, etc |
| Example: | If we can find "THAT GRACE", anything is possible If we can tap "THAT GRACE" everything can change "AMAZING GRACE" "AMAZING GRACE" |
| Connotation | The emotional charge that a word carries |
| Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word |
| Diction | Word choice |
| Syntax | Sentence Structure |
| Comic Relief | A humorous scene which purpose is to lighten the mood and relieve tension |
| Tragic Hero | The protagonist in a tragedy |
| Fatal Flaw | A character trait that causes the character's demise |
| Solioquy | A longer speech in which a character speaks to him or himself, relating his or her innermost thoughts and feelings as if thinking aloud |
| Stage Directions | Words that describe the setting and the movements of actors on the stage |
| Example: | {Thunder and lighting. CASCA and CICERO enter.} |
| Iambic Pentameter | Meter that consists of 10 syllables arranged in unstressed/stressed pattern |
| Heroic Couplet | Two lines of rhyming poetry written in iambic pentameter |
| Example: | So long as men can breathe or eye can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee |
| Apostrophe | When the character addresses a person who is not present or a personified object |
| Example: | Is this dagger which I see before me, /The handle toward my hand? "COME, LET ME CLUTCH / THEE" |
| Paradox | A figure of speech that appears to be contradictory, but upon closer examination reveals some truth |
| Example: | I must be cruel to be kind |
| Personification | Giving inanimaate objects or ideas human attributes |
| Example: | The sun kissed my cheeks as I stepped outside |
| Alliteration | Repetition of beginning sound |
| Example: | The wicked witch of the West |
| Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, art, famous person, etc |
| Dramatic Irony | When the reader or the audience know something that the characters don't know |
| Situational Irony | When something that is not expected to happen happens |
| Example: | A fire at the fire house |
| The ghost of King Hamlet | This character appears to the guards at the opening of the play |
| Ophelia | Hamlet is supposedly "madly" in love with this character |
| Polonius | Laertes and Ophelia's father |
| Young Fortinbras | This character is threatening to attack Denmark to reclaim land lost by his father |
| Barnardo, Fransisco, and Marcellus | Name the three guards |
| Queen Gertrude | Hamlet's mother |
| Laertes | Ophelia's brother |
| King Claudius | The current King of Denmark |
| Horatio | Hamlet's friend |
| Messengers | Who are Voltemand and Cornelius? |
| Do not fall for the Prince | What advice does Laertes give his sister, Ophelia, regarding Hamlet? |
| Stop wearing black clothes; stop mourning your father; be friendlier towards Claudius | What does Queen Gertrude tell Hamlet to do? |
| He was bit by a poisonous snake while napping in the garden | What do people of Denmark know about the cause of King Hamlet's death? |
| He sends messengers to the King of Norway to stop his nephew's plans | What is Claudius's response to the threat/demands made by Young Fortinbras? |
| Don't speak your thoughts; don't act without thinking; don't get into fights, but if you do defend yourself; wear nice clothes; make friends; hold onto good friends; be true to yourself; do not borrow or lend money | List two pieces of advice that Polonius gives his son. |
| King Hamlet's ghost | "I am thy father's spirit" |
| King Hamlet's ghost | "The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown." |
| Polonius | "Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act." |
| Hamlet | "Never to speak of this that you have seen. Swear by my sword." |
| Hamlet | "Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!" |
| Oxymoron | Defeated Joy |
| Oxymoron | Combines two contradictory words to give them a deeper and more poetic meaning |
| Foreshadowing | "In what particular thought to work I know not, But in the gross and scope of mine opinion This bodes some strange eruption to our state." |
| Foreshadowing | The technique of hinting at future events in a story using subtle parallels, usually to generate more suspense or engage the reader’s curiosity |
| Metaphor | "But I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house." |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares two different things to show their similarities by insisting that they’re the same |
| Alliteration | "Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres" |
| Alliteration | The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables |
| Apostrophe | "Oh, all you hosts of heaven! Oh, earth!" |
| Analogy | Compares one thing to something else to help explain a similarity that might not be easy to see |
| Euphemism | A soft and inoffensive word or phrase that replaces a harsh, unpleasant, or hurtful one for the sake of sympathy or civility |
| Hyperbole | Using exaggeration to add more power to what you’re saying, often to an unrealistic or unlikely degree |
| Imagery | To writing that invokes the reader’s senses with descriptive word choice to create a more vivid and realistic recreation of the scene in their mind |
| Onomatopoeia | to words that represent sounds, with pronunciations similar to those sounds |
| Satire | A style of writing that uses parody and exaggeration to criticize the faults of society or human nature |
| Simile | Compare two different things to point out their similarities |
| Symbolism | When objects, characters, actions, or other recurring elements in a story take on another, more profound meaning and/or represent an abstract concept |
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