Hamlet

Question 1

Tragedy

Answer 1

A drama that shows the downfall of a noble person

Question 2

Rising action

Answer 2

Part of the plot leading up to the climax

Question 3

Crisis

Answer 3

The part where a character changes their oppinion

Question 4

Climax

Answer 4

The high point

Question 5

Falling action

Answer 5

Part after the climax

Question 6

Denouncement (Resolution)

Answer 6

The action that ends with the success or failure of the protagonist

Question 7

Soliloquy

Answer 7

A long speech made by a character who is alone on stage and thus reveals his or her private thoughts to the audience

Question 8

Aside

Answer 8

A remark to the audience

Question 9

Dramatic Irony

Answer 9

When the audience knows something that one of the characters don’t

Question 10

Blank Verse

Answer 10

Un-rhymed iambic pantameter

Question 11

Comic Relief

Answer 11

A light scene following a serious one

Question 12

Hero

Answer 12

Has a basic human frailty that brings about his downfall and death, but before his death, he learns an important thing about that frailty

Question 13

Villain

Answer 13

Seem at first to be pure evil, but are human too

Question 14

Themes:

Answer 14

• Relationship between thought and action
• Nature of Justice and Revenge
• Sins beget retribution
• Sanity VS. Madness
• Nature of Political Power
• Connection between well being of state and leaders
• Morality of suicide
• Nature of relationships
• Inevitability of death