HAMLET UNIT TEST STUDY GUIDE
Part One - Literary Terms
Monologue
aside
soliloquy
stage directions
Pun
comic relief
act/scene
dialogue tag
Metaphor
simile
blank verse
prose/verse
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Dramatic irony
Part Two – Characters
Prince Hamlet
Claudius
Gertrude
Polonius
Ophelia
Laertes
Marcellus
Fortinbras
King Hamlet (ghost)
Yorick the Jester
Osric
Horatio
Elsinore (castle)
Part Three – Major Plot Points by Act
For each act, be able to recount the major events and settings. You need to have a solid sense of the
timeline of events as well. Review your Dialogic Journals to help you with this.
Part Four – Quotations
Be able to identify the speaker of specific quotes from the play based on the context and content of the
quote itself. Look for anything in the quote that reveals something about the character who speaks it. It
would be helpful to study the Dialogic Journals for this as well. Quote selection will be based on the
importance of the quote, therefore most quotes should be familiar from class discussions.