LITERARY TERMS for HAMLET

LITERARY TERMS for HAMLETExposition: Statement of plot: as in the ghost telling Hamlet to get revenge on his fathers murder.

Setting: Time and place of story as in Denmark and Elsinore in Hamlet.

15th century.

Direct Characterization: A characters actions, words and deeds

What one character says about another

Stated Theme: When an author makes a direct statement about life- or death.

Implied theme: Unfolds through events Evil always catches up with you.Diction: Word Choice: Styles that characters use for speech

gravediggers in Hamlet speak in prose-

nobility speaks in iambic pentameter

Plot: Sequence of events in a literary work

Conflict: Main problem that must be resolved.Rising Action: Complications to action

Climax: Point of highest tension in the piece as in the duel in Hamlet

Falling action: Events from point of tension to the end of the piece

Resolution: Final outcome of the piece- in Hamlet everybody dies except Horatio

wholives to report the story.

Soliloquy: A character alone on stage expresses his thought as a monologue