| Why does polonius send reynaldo to paris? | To give money and messages laertes; check up on him |
| Why is ophelia frightend by hamlet? | Hamlet came to her looking and acting mad |
| How does polonium explain hamlets behavior? Is he right | He says hamlet is love sick. No, hamlet is trying to appear mad |
| Who are Rosencratz and Guildenstern? Why do they come to Elsinore? | Schoolmates of hamlet. The queen and king invited them |
| What Rozosencratz and Guildenstern agree to do? Are they betraying hamlet? | They try to learn why hamlet is acting strangely. Hamlet thinks they are, but they are trying to help him. |
| What is the bedridden king of Norways response to Claudius’s request? | He has reigned in Fortinbras, who will battle the poles instead of the Danes and asked to pass through their land |
| Who wrote the love letter polonius reads to Claudius and Gertrude? Why does he read it? | Hamlet. He reads it to prove hamlet is love sick |
| What is polonius’s plan for proving that hamlets odd behavior is the result of love madness? | To let hamlet talk to Ophelia while Polonius and the King secretly watch. |
| How does hamlet feel about seeing his old friends and what do they tell him? | He is suspicious of their motives. They admit they are supposed to observe him and report back to the king and queen |
| What does hamlet request the traveling players to perform and why? | The murder of Gonzago with some added lines to see if the king will reveal his guilt when he sees the details of king hamlets death |
| Couplet | In a poem, a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought. |
| Elegy | A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful. |
| Enjambment | The continuation of a complete idea (sentence or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line or couplet without a pause |
| Epic | A long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure |
| Epigram | A very short, witty poem. |
| Figure of speech | A verbal expression in which words or sounds are arranged in a particular way to achieve a particular effect. |
| Foot | Two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm. |
| Free verse | Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set meter |
| Haiku | A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis. |
| “More matter with less art” | Queen says this impatiently when wanting to know more about Hamlet being love sick. She wants polonium to tell more and be less rhetoric. |
| “Though this be madness, yet there is method isn’t” | Polonium says this meaning there is method in hamlets madness |
| “What piece of work is man, how mobile in reason how infinite in faculties…in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god…” | Hamlet says this meaning how brilliant humans are. They are intelligent and admirable. |
| “The play’s the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King” | … |
Hamlet act 2
July 19, 2019