What theme does this excerpt most reflect?
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . Hamlet: Am I not i’ the right, old Jephthah? Polonius: If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passing well. In the excerpt, Hamlet calls Polonius Jephthah, after the priest in the Old Testament who sacrifices his daughter to God. What does this allusion suggest about Polonius’s treatment of Ophelia?
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O! vengeance! The figurative language in these lines is an example of
Which detail in Hamlet best reflects the time the play was written in?
Historical criticism considers a text’s relationship to the [Dropdown 1] .
time period it was written in
To analyze tone, the reader should study word choice, which is also called
Which statements describe Elizabethan drama? Choose two correct answers.
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet , what plot event prompts Hamlet to become suspicious and resentful?
Which ideas describe a round character? Choose three correct answers.
What should audience members ask themselves when they evaluate how an actor interprets a character? Choose three correct answers.
If Shakespeare kills the character of Hamlet, what dramatic convention would he be using?
Which statements describe the rising action of a tragedy’s plot? Choose two correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet . . . . To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. What does this part of the soliloquy reveal about Hamlet?
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