Strategies:
- Know what you're supposed to do: read the questions carefully
- Know your enemy: know and recognize the structures of the questions. (See handout for detailed explanations)
- Rhetorical function
- Context
- Antecedent
- Style
- Tone
- Know yourself: use test taking skills, recognize your weaknesses
Hamlet
- Revenge tragedy
- Fall of someone whose character is good
- Character has a fatal flaw
- Hero is hesitant
- Hero's sanity questioned
- Hero contemplates suicide
- Multiple levels of intrigue
- Able, scheming villain
- Lots of soliloquies
- Sensationalized idea of murder/lots of death
- Started as Norse myth
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