Name:
Teacher:
Class:
Date:
Learning Target:
1. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: "A little more than kin, and less than kind" (1:2:65).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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2. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: “My father’s brother – but no more like my father than I to Hercules” (1:2:153-154).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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3. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: “This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be
false to any man" (1:3:79-81).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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4. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: “Haste me to know it, that with wings a swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge”
(1:5:131-132).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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5. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: "None, my lord, but the at the world's grown honest" (2:2:226).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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6. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: “But my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived” (2:2:348-349).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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7. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: “This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murdered, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell”
(2:2:545-547).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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8. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: “For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ” (2:2:578-583).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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9. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: “The spirit that I have seen may be evil, and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape” (2:2:587-589).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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10. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: “To die, to sleep—No more—and by a sleep to say we end” (3:1:62-63).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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11. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: “We are like arrant knaves all, We are not trust worthy, you shouldn’t believe us” (3:1:131-132).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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12. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: “ I am myself indifferent honest, but I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother not borne
me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck that I have thoughts to put them in”
(3:1:131-135).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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13. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: "O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven" (3:3:36).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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14. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: “Though inclination be as sharp as will” (3:3:43).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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15. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: "I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind" (3:4:179-182).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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15. Figure of Speech: ______________________________
MOD: "When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!" (4:5:52-53).
Interpretation: _________________________________________________________________________
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Extra Practice:
Please find three additional examples of Figures of Speech used in Hamlet. Cite the
Act #, the Scene #, and the line number(s) for each example. Example: (1:2:30-32).
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