Which excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i is a stage direction?
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Horatio: That can I; At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, Whose image even but now appear’d to us, Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, Thereto prick’d on by a most emulate pride,Dar’d to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet— For so this side of our known world esteem’d him— Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seal’d compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry, Did forfeit with his life all those his landsWhich he stood seiz’d of, to
Which are structural elements that are unique to dramas? Select three answers.actsscenessentencesstage directionsrising actions
What best describes characterization?
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will. But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,—Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Enter Ghost.Bernardo: In the same figure, like the king that’s dead.Marcellus: Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.Bernardo: Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.Horatio: Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.Bernardo: It would be spoke to.Marcellus: Question it, Horatio.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Gertrude: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust: Thou know’st ’tis common; all that live must die, Passing through nature to eternity.Hamlet: Ay, madam, it is common.Gertrude: If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee?
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,And thy best graces spend it at thy will.But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,—Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind.Claudius: How is it that the clouds still hang on you?Hamlet: Not so, my lord; I am too much i’ the sun.
In Hamlet, Act I, Scene i, which character does Shakespeare use most to create suspense?
Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as a man who falls from a high status, which makes Hamlet an example of a(n):
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will. But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,—Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Horatio: That can I; At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king, Whose image even but now appear’d to us, Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, Thereto prick’d on by a most emulate pride,Dar’d to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet— For so this side of our known world esteem’d him— Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seal’d compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry, Did forfeit with his life all those his landsWhich he stood seiz’d of, to the conqueror;
Which excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i is a stage direction?
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,And thy best graces spend it at thy will.But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,—Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind.Claudius: How is it that the clouds still hang on you?Hamlet: Not so, my lord; I am too much i’ the sun.
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In Hamlet, Act I, Scene i, which character does Shakespeare use most to create suspense?
Which are structural elements that are unique to dramas? Select three answers.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Marcellus: Is it not like the king?Horatio: As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on When he the ambitious Norway combated; So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. ’Tis strange.Marcellus: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.Horatio: In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
Hamlet, Act I, Scene i contains suspense because it
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.Hamlet: I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; I think it was to see my mother’s wedding.Horatio: Indeed, my lord, it follow’d hard upon.Hamlet: Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak’d meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
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