True or false. Hamlet is a tour de force because it is written entirely in blank verse.
What is false?
100
When Hamlet tells Yorick's skull to "get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to THIS FAVOUR she must come"?
What is we all must die?
100
"God hath given you one face and you make yourself another."
Appearance vs. reality
200
Hamlet goes to college here.
What is Wittenberg?
200
This is what Hamlet means by "the undiscover'd country, from whose bourn no traveller returns.
What is the Afterlife?
200
True or False: Hamlet has one soliloquy per act.
What is false?
200
When Hamlet tells Horatio that he is sorry that to Laertes he forgot himself, "for by the image of my cause I can see the portraiture of his" he means this.
What is he can see the parallel between himself and Laertes?
200
"tis an unweeded garden/That grows to seed."
What is corruption?
300
These 2 things happen when the king drinks.
What is canon fires and trumpet sounds?
300
He said this to her: "Get thee to a nunnery."
Who is Hamlet to Ophelia?
300
All but ONE of these is a motif in Hamlet.
1. Make-up's ability to change reality
2. Eternal nature of man
3. Setting of traps
4. Music imagery
What is eternal nature of man?
300
He has Hamlet's "dying voice."
Who is Fortinbras?
300
"For they are actions that a man might play, /But I have that within that passes show."
What is appearance vs. reality?
400
His becoming King upsets the Great Chain of Being.
Who is Claudius?
400
Reason Ophelia's madness is ironic.
What is it's the same reason Hamlet pretended to be mad.
400
When Polonius says that "Brevity is the soul of wit" it is an example of this literary device.
What is irony?
400
Theme represented by this quote: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
What is corruption?
500
This is he that builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright or a carpenter.
What is a gravemaker?
500
The one that is NOT an example of doubling in the play.
1. Polonius's conduct towards his son and towards Hamlet
2. Claudius's' behavior towards his wife and Polonius.
3. The instances of insanity in the play.
4. Letters to the King of England.
What is Polonius's conduct towards his son and towards Hamlet?
500
Type of imagery Hamlet associates with Rosencranz and Guildenstern after the play within a play.
What is music? pipes
500
This theme Appearance vs. reality represents TWO motifs.