Literary Terms



1."Make Ossa like a wart. Nay, an thou'lt mouth"(ACT V SCENE I ln. 289)
2. "The cat will mew, and the dog will have his day."(ACT V SCENE I ln. 248)
3."Forty thousand brothers would not will all their quantity of love make up my sum."(ACT V SCENE I ln. 275-278)


1."And smelt so? Pah!"(ACT V SCENE I ln.204)
2."O, treble woe" (ACT V SCENE I ln.251)
3."Pluck them asunder."(ACT V SCENE I ln.268)


1."Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio-a fellow of infinite jest,of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your song? your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning? Quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come. Make her laugh at that.-Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing."(ACT V SCENE I ln.187-199)
2."Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead, till of this flat a mountain you have made t'o'oertop old Pelion or the skyish head of blue Olympus."(ACT V SCENE I ln. 255-259)
3."I prithee take thy fingers from my throat, for though I am not splentitive and rash, yet have I in me something dangerous, which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand.(ACT V SCENE I ln. 264-267)


1."To let this canker of our nature come"(ACT V SCENE II ln. 70)
2."...but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt."(ACT V SCENE II ln. 90)
3."...calendar of gentry , for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see."(ACT V SCENE II ln.111)


1."This grave shall have a living monument"(ACT V SCENE I ln. 303)
2."Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting..."(ACT V SCENE II ln.4)
3."Being thus benetted round with villainies,..."(ACT V SCENE II ln. 29)


1."The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants."(ACT V SCENE I ln. 44-45)
2."You lie on't, sir, and therefore 'tis not yours. For my part , I do not lie in't , yet it is mine."(ACT V SCENE I ln.125-126)
3."'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away again from me to you."(ACT V SCENE I ln. 130)


1."Sweets to the sweet, farewell!"(ACT V SCENE I ln.247)
2."May violet spring!"(ACT V SCENE I ln.243)
3."Deprived thee of!"(ACT V SCENE I ln.252)

1."Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will me and the dog will have his day."(ACT V SCENE I ln.297-298) 2."In youth when I did love, did love, Methought it was very sweet To contract-O-the time for -a-my behove, O, methought there-a-was nothing-a-meet."(ACT V SCENE I ln.62-65) 3."But age with his stealing steps hath clawed me in the clutch and hath shipped me into land, as if I had never been such"(ACT V SCENE I ln.72-75) 1