Hamlet Test Review!
TEXT
Hamlet
FORMAT
Short answer
Longer-answer (one paragraph)
Literary term ID (from passage)
Quote explication (be able to identify and explain a quote, and place it in context)
CONCEPTS / ASPECTS OF DRAMA TO KNOW
Five-act structure
Great chain of being / divine right of kings
Tragic hero and tragic flaw
Iambic pentameter
Costumes / class custom / props
LITERARY TERMS TO KNOW
Setting Foils Allusions
Motifs Similes Mood
Symbol Metaphors Tone
Characterization Personification Ambiguity
QUOTES TO KNOW
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
My lord, you once did love me.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock or livery,
….. Why may
not imagination trace the noble dust of
Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
Role of drama (plays within plays and life as play)
Gender roles
Sounds and silence
Stage directions
Duality Synecdoche Alliteration
Irony Assonance
Soliloquy Consonance
Anaphora Sibilance
Witness this army of such mass and charge
Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd
Makes mouths at the invisible event,
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death and danger dare,
Even for an egg-shell.
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have?
My honour'd lord, you know right well you did;
And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed
As made the things more rich: their perfume lost,
Take these again; for to the noble mind
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
There, my lord.