AP LIT.: Hamlet Vocab and Lit Terms

• testing of a metal or ore to determine its ingredients and quality

• determine the content or quality of (a metal or ore)

• attempt

• make (something) greater by adding to it; increase

• a vowel prefixed to past tenses of verbs in Greek and other Indo-European languages

• charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way

• help (time) pass pleasantly

• excessive pride one oneself

• a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor

• prove (a person or an assertion) to be wrong

• solidify or coagulate, especially by cooling

• take shape or coalesce, especially to form a satisfying whole

• a persons face or facial expression

• support

• admit as acceptance or possible

• careful and persistent work or effort

• written or spoken communication or debate

• speak or write authoritatively about a topic

• a mans short close-fitting padded jacket, commonly worn from the 14th to the 17th century

• a pair of similar things, in particular either of two words or of the same historical source, but with two different stages of entry into the language and different resultant meanings, for example fashion and faction, clock and cloak

• effort to match or surpass a person or achievement, typically by imitation

• reproduction of the function or action of a different computer, software system, etc

• having the neck encircled by a coronet or collar, especially of a specified tincture

• full of incessant or frantic activity

• relating to, affected by, or denoting a regularly recurrent fever typically accompanying tuberculosis, with flushed cheecks and hot, dry skin

• indulge

  • allow oneslef to enjoy the pleasure of

  • become involved in (an activity, typically one that is undesirable or disapproved of)

  • allow oneself to enjoy a particular pleasure, especially that of alochol

• a grant by the pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. the unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later middle ages

• light ot set on fire

• arouse or inspire (an emotion or feeling)

• (of an emotion) be aroused

• many and various

• a pipe or chamber branching into several openings

• a collection of points forming a certain kind of set, such as those of a topologically closed surface or an analog of this in three or more dimensions

• gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter

• to make less severe or painful

• to make less unpleasant, serious, or painfull

• each of two parts into which a thing is or can be divided

• each of two social or ritual groups into which a people is divided, especially among australian aboriginal people and some north american indians

• a part or portion, especially a lesser share

• obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

• the entrails and internal organs of an animal used as food

• refuse or waste material

• decomposing animal flesh

• a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person

• a member of an armed group formed to fight secretly, aganist an occupying force, in particular one operating in enemy-occupied yugolavia, italy, and parts of eastern europe in ww2

• prejudiced in favor of a particular cause

• a persons head

• a spread of finely chopped or pureed seasoned meat

• the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation

• all future generations

• people who will exist in the future

• soft boggy area that gives way underfoot

• an awkward, complex, or hazardous situation

• directed or moving backward

• a degenerate person

• go back in position or time

• show retrogradation

• a person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superioirity in the same field of activity

• be or seem to be equal or comparable to

• bring our of sleep; awaken

• cause to feel angry or excited

• a piece of tough fibrous tissue uniting muscle to bone or bone to bone; a tendon or ligament

• the parts of a structure, system, or thing that give it strength or bind it together

• scatter or spread (things) untidily over a surface or area

• cover (a surface or area) with untidily scattered things

• be scattered or spread untidily over (a surface or area)

• a pigpen

• keep (a pig) in a sty

• red, painful lump near the edge of the eyelid that may look like a boil or a pimple

• a long deep breath

• sigh

• an utterance made by exhaling audibly

• capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute

• capable of being held maintained, or defended

• to hold; hold together

• boast about or praise (something), especially excessively

• a boast

• to call attention to pridefully and often boastfully

• mental sharpness and inventiveness; keen intelligence

• a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humor

specific part of something is used to refer to the whole thing

• ex: hungry mouths to feed

• offer your hand in marriage

• all arms on deck

thw use of a word reffering to or replacing a word used eariler in a sentence, to avoid repitition

• ex: we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow

repeated conjunctions between word or clauses in a sentence to emphasize whats being said

• ex: neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers

the omission or absense of a conjunction between parts of a sentence

• ex: we went to the park, played on the jungle gym, ran around had a picnic…tat was about it

word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

• ex: a heart of gold

• life is a rollercoaster

series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses

• ex: list, list, oh list

• dream, dream, dream again

• hurry,hurry,hurry

used in dialogue where characters deliever lines back and forth, typically in single lines

• ex: Queen Gertrude: "Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue."

• Hamlet: "Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue."

elongated metaphor

• ex: juliet to sun in romeo and juliet

  • but soft! what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east, and juliet is the sun

addresses someone or something that is absent

• alas poor yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellenet fancy

contrasting ideas placed in parallel grammatical structure

• to err is human, to forgive divine

• we must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

extended speech delivered by a single character in a play, film, or other literary work (has an audience)

• ex: kings opening to citizens in act 1

speaking thoughts of character alone, expressing inner thoughts and feelings

• ex: hamlets to be or not to be soliloquy

structure of phrase is reversed in the following phrase

• ex: by day the frolic, and the dance by night

• ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

exagerated statements

• ex: im so hungry, i could eat a horse

combines two contradictory or opposite words together

• ex: fierce tenderness

• bitter sweet