Friday, September 22 Act 2.2 setting a spy

Coming up: vocabulary quiz Hamlet 3 (handed out on Wednesday, September 27 / copy below); powerpoint review on Tuesday, September 26
Figurative Language Handout (copy below) 


In class:  Act 2.2 spying and manipulation; watching - see link below- discussing; review of some figurative language devices; class handout for practice. This will be collected at the beginning of class on Monday.

: With a neighbor (s) and reread lines 1.5.59-79.  When you have finished, discuss:   How did King Hamlet actually die?  Be prepared to share with the class.

PLEASE TAKE OUT YOUR NOTEBOOKS
Write the following:
Themes in Hamlet

1.corruption
2. religion provides no answers: what looks good could be evil.
3. decisive action.

4. filial responsibility 
5. appearance vs. reality

Once we have watched act 2.2, please respond to the following questions in your notebook. 

Act 2.2 Polonius sets a spy on Laertes; Ophelia tells on Hamlet
5 minutes 52

  Hamlet Act 2.2

Polonius sets a spy on Laertes; Ophelia tells Polonius what Hamlet has done.

1.     Why does Polonius wish Renaldo to use “slips [such] as gaming…or drinking, fencing and quarrelling,” in other words a “bait of falsehood?” use text (2.1.64-66)

       

2.     According to Ophelia, how was Hamlet dressed when he entered her sewing closet?

Use text (2.1.77-83)

  

3.     What does Polonius think is the reason behind Hamlet’s behavior?

Use text (1.2.102).

4. Look at your themes list. Select one theme and give two examples of how you see this being developed.

Essential question: How does figurative language enrich a text?

FORMS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 

Simile
A comparison of two things, as indicated by a connective such as “like” or “as.”
Examples:
“Cool as a cucumber”
“My love is like a red, red rose”
“Life is like a box of chocolates”

Metaphor
A figure of speech in which we talk about something as though it were something else.
Examples:
“Love is a battlefield”
“All the world’s a stage”
“It was a piece of cake”

Personification
Giving human characteristics to animals or objects to create imagery.
Examples:
“The lightning roared angrily”
“The bell refused to ring”
“The rain came hesitatingly at first”

Onomatopoeia
A word that sounds like what it refers to.
Examples:
“Cough” “Yelp” “Roar” “Chirp”

Oxymoron
 A form of figurative language relying on a contradiction to make a point.
Examples:
“Deafening silence”
“Open secret”

Synecdoche
The use of a significant part of a thing to stand for the whole of it or vice versa.
Examples:
To say “wheels” for car or “rhyme” for poetry are examples of synecdoche.



Practice exercises:

Name____________________________________________
Class Period_______________________________________

Word Bank
simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, synecdoche

Identify the figurative language device being used in the following.

1. You’re as cold as ice. ________________________________________________________

2. I really like your new wheels. __________________________________________________

3. There’s a lonely little tree at the end of my street.___________________________________

4. The song’s stuck in my head because the hook is just so catchy._______________________

5. The wind whistled through the trees._____________________________________________

6. That bowl of ice cream is tempting me. ___________________________________________

7. She’s got hair of spun gold.____________________________________________________

8. The sudden fluttering of the bluebird’s wings startled me._____________________________

9. Without my glasses, I’m blind as a bat.___________________________________________

10. I’m listening to the sound of silence. ____________________________________________

11. The sign on the truck says “liquid gas.”__________________________________________

12. If you want to come to the fundraising dinner, it’s $50 a plate._________________________

13. The children splashed around in the pool.________________________________________

14. I woke up feeling fresh as a daisy.______________________________________________

15. Please say excuse me when you belch. _________________________________________

16. Those wheels are awesome! ______________________________

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Hamlet vocabulary 3 by William Shakespeare Vocabulary Quiz Wednesday, September 27

The quiz will be 10 matching and 10 contextual sentences

1.     calamity- (noun) a great misfortune or disaster
2.     heir- (noun) a person who inherits or has right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter’s death.
3.     To confine- (verb) to shut or keep in
4.     commencement- (noun) beginning, start
5.     hypocrite- (noun) a person who pretends to have virtues,        principles 
6.     virtue- (noun) goodness
7.     to deprive-(verb) took away
8.     to harrow-(verb) distresses the mind or feelings
9.     imminent- (adjective) likely to occur at any moment
10.    incentive- (noun) something that encourages a person to do something or to work harder