Shakespearean Drama Vocabulary & Hamlet Act 1 Plot

Drama

• a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot
• a story written to be acted for an audience
• a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different
• character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Tragedy 

• an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
• two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
• a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
• character who changes as a result of the story’s events

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

Dramatic Irony 

• character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way
• humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
  
• the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
• two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
  

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Comic Relief

• humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot
  
• direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use
• event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
• a speech by one character in a play

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A trait in a character leading to his downfall and the character is often the hero of the literary piece. 

• tragic flaw
• symbol
• theme
• metaphor

What news does Horatio bring Hamlet?

• He's seen the ghost.
• Fortinbras is ready to attack.
• Claudius is marrying his mother.
• King Hamlet is dead.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

In a tragedy, the climax is known as the:

• Catastrophe
• Chorus
• Catharsis
• Cornitos

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

• verse
• blank verse
• free verse
• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable; there are five syllables per line.

• meter
• iambic pentameter
• blank verse
• soliloquy

Define foreshadowing.

• A flashback of what happened previously
• A hint at something that will happen later
• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things
• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3