Macbeth Literary Terms
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Hamlet Name: This is due on the day of your Final Hamlet assessment (specific date TBA). It is your responsibility to fill this out and use it to study. Questions/predictions Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Hamlet I.i Image: Hamlet I.ii Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet I.iii Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet I.iv Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet I.v Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Word Context Definition Liegemen liegemen to the Dane Sample Word Context Definition Context Definition Dreaded Context Definition Entreated . Context Definition Apparition If again this apparition come… Context Definition Sample Word Context Definition Commend Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty. Word Context Definition Suspiration Word Context Definition Visage Nor the dejected haviour of the visage Sample Bode This bodes some strange eruption Word Context Definition Credent With too credent an ear you list his songs Sample Sample Word Disjoint Our state is disjoint and out of frame Sample Sample Word Context Definition Sample Sample Word Word Sample Sample Word H am let Act I Vo cabu lar y Auspicious With an auspicious and dropping eye Word Context Definition Sample Prodigal The chariest maid is prodigal enough Word Context Definition Perilous unsifted in such perilous circumstance. Sample Word Context Definition Context Definition Beguile The better to beguile Context Definition Breach More honour’d in the breach than the observance Context Definition Censure Shall in the general censure take corruption Context Definition Sample Context Definition Torment sulph’rous and tormenting flames Word Context Definition Fretful Like quills upon the fretful porcupine Word Context Definition Pale To pale his uneffectual fire Sample Ponderous Hath op’d his ponderous and marble jaws Sample Word Word Sample Sample Word Fathom That looks so many fathoms to the sea Sample Sample Word Context Definition Sample Sample Word Word Word Context Definition Pernicious O most pernicious woman! Sample Disposition So horridly to shake our disposition Word Context Definition Sample Antic To put an antic disposition on Word Context Definition Hamlet II.i Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet II.ii Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Forgeries put on him what forgeries you please H am let Act II Vo cabu lar y Context Quaintly breathe his faults so quaintly that they may seem the taints of liberty Definition Context Perusal He falls to such a perusal of my face as if he would draw it Definition Sample Word Context Definition Sample Confines in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o’ the worst Word Context mad I am but mad north-north-west, … I know a hawk from a handsaw Definition Sample Sample Word Context Definition Sample Sample Word Word Brevity brevity is the soul of wit Word Context Definition Sample Word Context Definition Sample Assume the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape conscience The play’s the thing in which I’ll catch the conscience of the king Hamlet III.i Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet III.ii Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet III.iii Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet III.iv Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Word Context niggard H am let Act III Vo cabu lar y Niggard of question, but of our demands. Most free in his reply. Word Context Definition Definition Sample Sample discourse That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should / admit no discourse to your beauty. Word Context Definition calumny Definition be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery Sample Negative words, bad reputation Word Context Sample Word Context Definition aloof But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof… Word Context contumely Definition For who would bear the whips and scorns of time/The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely Sample Word Context Sample Word Context aught I never gave you aught. Definition Sample Word Context Sample Context Definition confederate Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing; /Confederate season Definition choler for me to put him / to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far more choler. Here stooping to your clemency, We beg your hearing patiently. gambol And I the matter will re-word; which madness / Would gambol from. Sample Word Context incorporal Definition Without body or form That you do bend your eye on vacancy /And with the incorporal air do hold discourse? Sample Word Context Definition Context clemency Definition Sample Word epitaph with/the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is 'For, O, for, O,/the hobby-horse is forgot.' Definition Word Sample Anger Sample prating Indeed this counselor Is now most still, most secret and most grave, Who was in life a foolish prating knave. Hamlet IV.i Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet IV.ii Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet IV.iii Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet IV.iv Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet IV.v Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet IV.vi Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet IV.vii Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Word Context Rapier H am let Act IV Vo cabu lary Behind the arras hearing something stir, Whips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a rat!' Definition Context Context convocation Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain/convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Definition Sample Sample Word Word untimely And what's untimely done. O, come away! Word Context Definition rendezvous You know the rendezvous. If that his majesty would aught with us, We shall express our duty in his eye; Definition Sample Sample Word Context gleaned when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. Word Context Definition Sample Definition Sample oblivion Now, whether it be/Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple/Of thinking too precisely on the event, Word Context craven Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, Word Context unsmirched brands the harlot/Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow/Of my true mother. Definition Definition Sample Sample Word Word Context imminent Context I see/The imminent death of twenty/thousand men, Definition collateral If by direct or by collateral hand/They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give, Definition Sample Sample Word Word Context importunate Context She is importunate, indeed distract: Her mood will needs be pitied. Definition Definition Sample Sample Word Context shroud White his shroud as the mountain snow,-- Word Context Definition Sample Word Context obscure His means of death, his obscure funeral-No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones, compelled Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on/a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded/them: Definition impetuous The ocean, overpeering of his list, Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, O'erbears your officers. Sample Word Context Definition Definition Sample Sample anoint I will do't: And, for that purpose, I'll anoint my sword. Word Context Definition Hamlet V.i Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions Hamlet V.ii Image: Plot Summary/Important information about characters: Questions/predictions H am let Act V Vo cabu lar y circumvent one that would circumvent God/might it not? Word abhorred Context and now, how/abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at/it. Definition Sample Word Context Sample conveyances The/very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in/this box; Definition Context Context gibes Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? Definition Sample Word Word Sample equivocation Word we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. Context Definition Definition Sample Sample imperious Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: Word Context obsequies Her obsequies have been as far enlarged As we have warrantise Word Context Definition Definition Sample Sample Word Context requiem We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls Word Context Definition Definition Sample Sample Word Context conjuration An earnest conjuration from the king, As England was his faithful tributary, Word Context Definition Definition Sample Sample Word Context amities As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear And stand a comma 'tween their amities, Word Context verity But, in the/verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of/great article; dearth I take him to be a soul of/great article; and his infusion of such dearth and/rareness, as, to make true diction of him augury Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. palpable A hit, a very palpable hit. Definition Definition Sample Sample Word Word Context perdition Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; Context Definition Definition Sample Sample felicity If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart Absent thee from felicity awhile,
