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Soliloquy – a speech given onstage by an actor who is alone, or thinks he’s alone (true thoughts of the character)- Examples: To be or not to be speech, Claudius’ speech while praying Oxymoron – 2 contrasting words that are…

blank verse Unrhymed iambic pentameter Soliloquoy speech made by a character alone on stage no other character hears him or her Aside lines intended only for the audience Anachronism something placed in a time period in which it does not…

Excuse me. Is this where they’re having the auditions for Hamlet? That’s what you said about ‘Man if La Mancha’. And we had to fumigate that one. We’re engaged. Oh you KNOW him then. We should be. We’re not engaged…

How did Claudius murder Old Hamlet? Poured poison into his ear Where was Old Hamlet killed? In the orchard Name one of the three people the ghost appeared to first. Horatio, Marcellus, Bernardo Name the two men instructed to accompany…

“Get thee to a nunnery” Hamlet 1) protect your virtue 2) or go to a brothel (Elizabethian) “It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.” Claudius thinks he is talking about Hamlet but is talking about…

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“In the same figure as the King that’s dead” Barnado to Marcellus. The ghost relates to King Hamlet. Idea of seeing a ghost was accepted/believed in those times. “Such was the very armor he had on when the ambitious Norway…

How does hamlet feel about the drunken revelry? He’s disgusted by it and believe it makes denmark a laughing stock. What mixed feelings does Hamlet have when he sees the ghost? He is not sure it is his father or…

let’s move on what message does Claudius ultimately put forth about the death of Hamlet in his speech? syntactical structure claudius uses ____ to trick people into agreeing with his speech without actually understanding it? claudius’ speech what does act…

leeway (n.) extra space for moving; allowing for mistakes or inaccuracies; margin of error flings (v.) throws, tosses grasp (v.) to take hold of something tightly with the hands; to understand or comprehend fully profound (adj.) deep; having great depth…