Hamlet Close Analysis

Question 1

Ambiguity

Answer 1

-multiple meanings

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

– addresses inanimate or absent thing as though it is there.

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

• repetition of vowel sounds

Question 4

Anadiplosis -

Answer 4

Starting one clause with the final word of the previous clause

Question 5

Consonance-

Answer 5

repetition of consonants

Question 6

Hyberbole –

Answer 6

exaggeration

Question 7

Metaphysical conceit -

Answer 7

metaphor or simile that links two apparently unrelated fields in an unusual conjunction of ideas.

Question 8

Spondee-

Answer 8

stressed then stressed

Question 9

Syntax –

Answer 9

word order/ sentence structure

Question 10

Synaesthesia-

Answer 10

opposite senses used to describe the sense “darkness visible”

Question 11

Trochee-

Answer 11

stressed unstressed

Question 12

Blank Verse

Answer 12

unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 13

Caesura

Answer 13

break in a a line, punctuation

Question 14

Chiasmus –

Answer 14

reversal of words in grammatical structure eg) “to be or not to be”

Question 15

Enjambement

Answer 15

lines run into one another

Question 16

End stopped line

Answer 16

using a full stop at the end of the line

Question 17

Feminine/masculine ending

Answer 17

feminine in unstressed masculine is stressed

Question 18

Rhyming couplet

Answer 18

two rhyming lines

Question 19

Aside

Answer 19

heard by the audience but not members of the cast

Question 20

Anapest

Answer 20

unstressed/unstressed/ stressed or galloping meter – builds tension

Question 21

Diction

Answer 21

formal (polysyllabic eg – Polonius) neutral – direct simple low – relaxed colloquialisms

Question 22

Dactylic rhyme

Answer 22

rhyming words of three or more syllables where the last syllable isn’t stressed eg) gravity/depravity

Question 23

Heroic couplet

Answer 23

two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter, second line is usually end stopped.

Question 24

Foot/Prosody

Answer 24

a measured combination of heavy and light stresses

Question 25

Trochaic rhyme

Answer 25

rhyming words of two syllables in which the first syllable is stressed eg) flower/ shower

Question 26

Slant rhyme

Answer 26

rhyme in consonants not vowels eg) slim/ham

Question 27

Idiomatic phrases

Answer 27

literal meaning is different to intended meaning - eg) hold your tongue