Hamlet
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All Themes Action and Inaction Appearance vs. Reality Women Religion, Honor, and Revenge Poison, Corruption, Death
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All Characters Hamlet Claudius Gertrude Polonius Ophelia The Ghost Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Laertes Horatio Fortinbras Yorick
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All Literary Devices Alliteration Allusions Dramatic Irony Foil Foreshadowing Genre Hyperbole Idioms Irony Metaphors Mood Motifs Oxymorons Personification Setting Similes Situational Irony Soliloquy Style Tone Verbal Irony
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Hamlet

by

William Shakespeare

Hamlet: Act 4, Scene 6 Quiz 1 question

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What literary term best describes the sudden appearance of the pirates on whose ship Hamlet returns to Denmark?
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Dramatic irony
Foreshadowing
Deus ex machina
Metaphor
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