Hamlet 1.4-2.1

What kind of rhetorical device is this: "pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; … As if he had been loosed out of hell.."

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Why was the imagery of Hamlet barging into Ophelia's room with his clothes undone needed when Ophelia could've just said "Hamlet got in my room, help"?

• As comic relief after the serious moments with the ghost
• To emphasize Hamlet's insanity
• To show that Hamlet is ill (disease)
• Shakespeare is has more art, with less matter.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What kind of rhetorical device is this: "My news shall be the fruit to that great feast."

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

In Scene 1, Polonius instructs Reynaldo to

• determine Laertes's behavior indirectly
• supervise Laertes to keep him out of trouble.
• spread damaging rumors about Laertes.
• help Laertes make friends and learn the language.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Hamlet visits Ophelia “with his doublet all unbraced, / No hat upon his head” to

• ask her how she feels about him.
• declare his love for her.
• convince her of his madness.
• tell her about the ghost of his father.

Which quotation expresses the reason that Claudius has sent for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

• “so by your companies / To draw him on to pleasures”
• “glean, / Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him” 
• “Good gentlemen, he hath much talked of you”
• “expend your time with us awhile”

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

 Polonius believes that the “very cause of Hamlet's lunacy” is his

• father's death.
• mother's overhasty marriage.
• rejection by Ophelia
• obsession with revenge.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

Hamlet is a __________

• Comedy 
• Tragedy
• Romance
• Romantic Comedy

Who does Hamlet want to get revenge on?

• Leartes
• Claudius 
• Odelphia
• Mercutio

"The air bites shrewdly, it is bitter cold" is an example of ________ imagery

• Kinesthetic
• Organic
• Visual
• Tactile