terminology assosiated with Hamlet

Question 1

allusion

Answer 1

to reference another piece of art - reference to julius caesar

Question 2

diction

Answer 2

the types of words chosen - Osric is very different to the Grave diggers

Question 3

euphemism

Answer 3

dressing up something unpleasant to mean something else - “do you think i meant country matters?”

Question 4

in media res

Answer 4

starting in the middle of things - act 4 scene 7 between laertes and the king

Question 5

memento mori

Answer 5

“remember you are mortal” - reminding ourselves that human life is brief, preparing for the next world

Question 6

psychodrama

Answer 6

a battle for the soul between good and evil - Hamlet trying to get Gertrude to admit to her sins in the closet scene

Question 7

sensationalism

Answer 7

exaggerating something to provoke excitement, whilst leaving out the human cost etc - like titus andronicus

Question 8

specious reasoning

Answer 8

false reasoning, usually designed to deceive - Claudius response to hamlet refusing to speak to him as a “loving and fair reply”

Question 9

set piece

Answer 9

a part where the author is showing off their skills - Ghosts account of his sufferings, Hamlets soliloquys, Gertrudes depiction of ophelias death

Question 10

stichomythia

Answer 10

when characters speak alternate lines generating fast paced - Grave diggers and Hamlet