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- 2. “In second husband let me be accursed!/ None wed the second but who killed the first./ The instances that second marriage move/ Are base respects of thrift, but none of love./ A second time I kill my husband dead/ When second husband kisses me in bed.” The player queen here says that to marry again is _______________.
- 6. iambic ______________________ is the poetic verse style of Shakespeare.
- 7. Hamlet reminds the players before their performance that the theater serves this function as it did even with the ancients: to raise individual and corporate ________________.
- 11. Claudius asks Hamlet why the "clouds still hang" on him?“ Hamlet responds, "Not so, my lord. I am too much in the sun” using a ________ to show how he does not like his uncle’s attempt to be paternal.
- 12. the juxtaposition of two contrasting words for rhetorical effect such as when Claudius speaks of mirth (laughter) in funeral and dirge (tears) in marriage
- 13. As he prepares to face his mother and confront her following the play Hamlet says, “Let me be cruel, not unnatural./ I will speak ___________________ to her but use none.”
- 15. Hamlet calls his play both “The Murder of Gonzago” and “The _________________” alluding to his intent to catch the conscience of the king.
- 17. Horatio is the only one Hamlet trusts because he is not someone who is easily “played” by forces beyond Hamlet’s control (like the king and the queen), and is not a “slave” to his “_____________” as Hamlet is.
- 18. the association of poison with corruption is one of these patterns in the play Hamlet.
- 19. When Claudius speaks to Hamlet publicly he seems paternal, but when he speaks to him more directly about his grief he is much more ________________
- 20. Claudius is compared to this lustful mythical beast.
- 21. Hamlet says that _________ makes cowards of us all- showing how distorted his outlook is.
- 23. In Act III, the audience is reminded that______________ has his troops on the move and that his conflict with Denmark has not yet been resolved.
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- 1. The player king questions “whether love leads fortune, or else fortune love.” Fortune here means the same as __________.
- 3. Claudius shows that he is concerned about Hamlet’s erratic behavior when he says, “_________ in great ones, must not unwatched go.”
- 4. Hamlet says “We are arrant _____________ all” showing his cynicism about the morality, fairness, and honesty of humanity.
- 5. the evoking of pity and fear in an audience
- 8. “Die two months ago and not forgotten yet? Then there’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.” Hamlet’s words here to his mother are openly ___________________.
- 9. excessive pride or self-confidence
- 10. Hamlet says to his “friends” Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, “Do you think I am easier to be played on than a __________” expressing his distrust in them.
- 14. moral _______________ refers to a a situation where it's unclear or difficult to determine what is right or wrong, or what action to take. I
- 16. this is the primary motive that the ghost inspires in his son Hamlet
- 20. Hamlet says that a dream is like a ___________________ because it is fleeting and insubstantial.
- 22. Hamlet’s soliloquies are beautiful and expressive, but also indicative of the desperation that festers when emotions are held in isolation rather than communicated.