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17 Cards in this Set
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“…and there put on him/What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank/As may dishonor him; take heed of that;” Here, “him” = __________
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Laertes
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“…as you did command,/I did repel his letters and denied/His access to me.” Here, “you” = __________ and “I” = __________ and “his” = __________
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Polonious, Ophelia, Hamlet
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Supply the missing word: “Your bait of __________ takes this carp of truth:/And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,/With windlasses and with assays of bias,/By indirections find directions out….”
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falsehood
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“What it should be,/More than his father’s death, that thus hath put him/So much from the understanding of himself, I cannot dream of: I entreat you both,/That, being of so young days brought up with him…” Here, “his” = __________ and “I” = __________ and “you both” = __________
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Hamlet, Claudius, R/G
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“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,/And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,/I will be brief…” Here, “I” = __________
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Polonious
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“This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me…” Here, “this” = __________ and “daughter” = __________ and “me” = __________
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the letter, Ophelia, Polonius
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“At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him:/Be you and I behind an arras then…” Here, “I” = __________ and “you” = __________
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Polonious, Claudius
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“On fortune’s cap we are not the very button.” Here, “we” = __________
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R & G
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Supply the missing word: “…for there is nothing either good or bad, but __________ makes it so.”
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thinking
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“Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better to have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.” Here, “them” = __________
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the players/actors
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What is the name of the play Hamlet requests from the players? __________
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Murder of Gonzago
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The word “cue” tells us the controlling metaphor in this passage comes from the world of __________
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passion/motive
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When Hamlet says, “Denmark’s a prison,” what figure of speech does he use: __________
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metaphor
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“All you gods, in general synod, take away her power; break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, and bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven, as low as to the fiends!” Here, “her” = __________
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Fortune
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“…dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining?” Here, “friends” = __________ and “my” = __________
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R/G, Hamlet
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“…how noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and movement, how express and admirable. In action how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!” Here, “paragon of animals” = __________
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mankind
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“I’ll observe his look;/I’ll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,/I know my course. The spirit that I have seen may be the devil: and the devil hath a power to assume a pleasing shape…” Here, “I” = __________ and “his” = __________ and “spirit” = __________
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Hamlet, Claudius, Ghost
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