Dramatic Language

Question 1

Hamlets soliloquy act 2, scene 2

Answer 1

Frustration shown in language
Swearing “fie upon’t, foh!”
Questions “am I a coward?”

Guilty until he makes a plan to “catch the conscience of the king”

Ends with a rhyming couplet - neatness of this ending creates a sense that hamlet is confident and back in control

Question 2

Metatheatre

Answer 2

Soliloquy full of theatrical terms and stage metaphors.

It’s aware of its own theatricality and makes the audience realise the difficulties of portraying genuine emotion

Question 3

Hyperbole

Answer 3

“Drown the stage with tears”

Exaggerates the players reaction to emphases his own numbness