| A | B |
|---|
| inverted sentence | the verb comes before the subject |
| ellipsis | occurs when a phrase is left out |
| allusion | a reference to some event, person, place, or artistic work, not directly explained or discussed by the writer |
| contracted words | words where a letter has been left out |
| archaic | words used at an earlier time |
| obsolete | no longer in use |
| pun | a literary device that achieves humor or emphasis by playing on ambiguities. |
| double entendre | a kind of pun in which a word or phrase has a second, usually sexual, meaning |
| malapropism | occurs when a character mistakenly uses a word that he or she has confused with another word |
| Quartos | single play |
| Folio | first collected works |
| ne'er | never |
| 'tis | it is |
| Claudius | King of Denmark |
| Gertrude | Queen of Denmark; Hamlet's mother |
| Ghost | Hamlet's father |
| Ophelia | daughter of Polonius |
| Laertes | son of Polonius |
| Rosencrantz & Gildenstern | courtiers |
| Fortinbras | Prince of Norway |
| death symbols | skulls, maggots, worms, rot, dust, ghosts |
| humors | four fluids |
| melancholy humor | associated with depression and anger, the color black, and earth, cold, and dryness |
| most famous play | Hamlet |
| Horatio | Hamlet's close friend |
| motiff | recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help develop & inform the text’s major themes |
| misogyny | hatred of women |
| symbols | objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts |
| Yorick | skull |
| Elsinore | castle |
