Literary Devices In Hamlet Review

What is a literary device?

• A technique used by a writer to convey a message

• The devious and illegal composition of a text

• The meaning and connotation of words in a play

• Interpreting a text

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What literary device is used in the Hamlet quote, "His beard was white as snow."?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Simile

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Which literary device is used in the quote, "Words, words, words."?

• Rhetoric

• Repetition

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What literary device is used in the Hamlet quote, "sea of troubles"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Repetition

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What literary device is used in the Hamlet quote, "My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites."?

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

• Personification

• Allusion

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

About whom is Hamlet talking Act 5 Sc. 1 of Hamlet when he says, "Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum."?

• Ophelia

• Gertrude

• His father/King Hamlet

• Horatio

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

How does hyperbole function in Hamlet's soliloquy in Act 3 Scene 1 of Hamlet?

• It emphasizes his desire for revenge.

• All answers are correct.

• It emphasizes his frustration with life.

• It emphasizes his anger at Claudius.

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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

Hyperbole is a literary device that is characterized by __ and is used extensively by Hamlet in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

• Exaggeration

• Rhyming

• Understatement

• Irony

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

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

Which of the following is NOT an example of hyperbole from Hamlet?

• "To take arms against a sea of troubles"

• "To be, or not to be"

• "A slave that is not twentieth part of the tithe"

• "Se, what a grace was seated on his brow"

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

To which Greek mythological figure does Hamlet compare his uncle in Hamlet?

• A satyr

• A god

• A centaur

• A Kraken

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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7