Hamlet Literary Groups
Role: Literary Luminaries
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Objective:
To facilitate understanding of key ideas and themes from specific passages of the play.
Responsibilities:
Each group member of the Literary Luminaries will be responsible for reading the Act in its entirety, in order to
identify and analyze Shakespeare’s use of literary terms to enhance characterization and advance the plot. All
scenes must be evenly distributed and utilized in the chart provided.
Requirements:
1. Literary Terms List: Each group member will need to define the following terms using the McDougalLittell text. Definitions for the literary terms can be found in the glossary. The completed handout is due
on the block day.
2. Literary Terms Chart: Group members will use the literary terms chart provided to identify and
analyze the usage of various literary terms in the assigned act. Each member will be responsible for two
terms each and must copy and paste the chart to Google Drive (instructions found on my website).
Google Drive and Turnitin.com Guidelines:
 Each group must invite their instructor to edit the document. Failure to invite the
instructor onto the document will result in a zero for the entire group.
 MY EMAIL IS: MUNCZEK.STEVE@CUSD80.COM
 Each group member is responsible for the inclusion of their literary terms on the Google
Drive document. Google Drive will assign a color to each group member, indicating what
she contributed and how much time she worked on the document.
 The literary terms chart must be submitted to Turnitin.com on the morning of the block
day, no later than 7:25 a.m. (6:25 AM for Zero Hour). Failure to upload the chart to
TII will result in a zero for all group members. Choose a responsible and
dependable group member for this task.
 One hard copy of the chart AND TII receipt must be printed out for the block day. The
teacher will not print the hard copy for the group, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Checklist for Block Day:
o Literary Terms Definitions Handout (one per group member)
o Hard copy of Literary Terms Chart (one chart for entire group)
o Hard copy of Turnitin.com receipt
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Dramatic Terms & Character List for Hamlet Unit
Soliloquy
Dramatic Monologue
Blank Verse
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Dramatic Irony
Aside
Iambic Pentameter
Comic Relief
Foil
Metaphor
Simile
Oxymoron
Pun
Hamlet’s Cast of Characters
The Ghost
Hamlet
Queen Gertrude (Hamlet’s mother)
King Claudius
Ophelia
Laertes
Polonius
Horatio
Reynaldo
Rosencrantz/Guildenstern
Voltemund/Cornelius/Osric
Francisco
Barnardo
Marcellus
Fortinbras
The Players
Gravedigger
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II. Choose two literary terms from the list provided, provide a brief explanation, then cite examples of
their implementation in the play. Finally, explain the purpose and effect of the cited literary term as it is
used in your example.
Dramatic term
and brief
definition
Example (Write it out)
Citation
Purpose/Effect
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