Hamlet Act One Quotation Analysis Practice

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Hamlet Act One Quotations Quiz

Test your understanding of the significant quotations from Act One of Shakespeare's Hamlet. This quiz will challenge you to analyze key quotes and their implications in the play.

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Focus on themes, characters, and figurative language
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What is the significance of "Affection? pooh! You speak like a green girl,/ Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.." (1,3, 101-102)

It shows that Ophelia is in love with Hamlet.

This quote shows us that Claudius thinks Ophelia is young and naive and he his genuinely concerned.

It shows the theme of corruption because Hamlet is taking advantage of Ophelia.

It is important because we see that woman were rather weak at this time.

What is the significance of Hamlet's soliloquy.

It is important because we find out Hamlet's inner thoughts. We find out how he truly feels about his uncle, and his mother, and the death of his father.

It is important because it expresses the theme of anger and corruption.

It is important because we see how little Hamlet thinks of women.

In Act Five, Hamlet's father persuades him to take revenge. How does he doe this? (p. 65-69).

Through repetition, gory details, and rhetorical devices to help increase nature of his arguments.

He does his by playing the father card. He takes advantage of Hamlet's fragile state.

By listing all the gory details. It creates a sense of horror for Hamlet. Which in turn, urges him to act.

He doesn't need to do much. He mentions murder and Hamlet jumps on the revenge plot.

"I could a tale unfold whose lightest word/ would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy blood,/Make thy eyes, like stars on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine" (1,5, 15-20). What TWO figurative devices are present in this passage? (Hint: There are THREE, but TWO are the same device).

Hamlet Act One Quotation Analysis Practice

Hamlet Act One Quotations Quiz

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