Hamlet - Literary terms and concepts - not complete

Question 1

anachronism

Answer 1

textual reference to something that doesn’t exist as the time

Question 2

amagnorisis

Answer 2

moment of recognition by character of an important truth

Question 3

archetype

Answer 3

original model used as a recurrent symbol

Question 4

crux

Answer 4

point of critical argument or controversy

Question 5

elegy

Answer 5

lament for the death

Question 6

hendiadys

Answer 6

a figure of speech in which two nouns/adjectives joined by and modify or repeat a single idea

Question 7

idiolect

Answer 7

style of speech peculiar to an individual character

Question 8

interlocutor

Answer 8

person to whom a character is speaking

Question 9

paradox

Answer 9

self contradictory but true statement or state of affairs

Question 10

sententia

Answer 10

opinion,macim recived wisdom

Question 11

stichomythia

Answer 11

a dramatic technique whereby a series of short speeches are given to alternating speakers in a battle of wits

Question 12

tautology

Answer 12

repeating the same idea in different words

Question 13

catharis

Answer 13

aristole claimed that tradgedy achieves catharsis

Question 14

dualism

Answer 14

two fundamental principles