Macbeth
Figures of speech
Metaphysical Poetry
Romanticism
Key Literature / Authors
100
Who becomes king at the end of Macbeth?
Macduff
100
What is a metaphor?
Compares two apparently dissimilar things without using like or as
100
What phrase means "Seize life for the moment and get all you can out of it"
Carpe Diem
100
Romantic poets rebelled against this era.
The Enlightenment or Age of Reason
100
William Shakespeare
What is the Renaissance?
200
Who wrote Macbeth?
William Shakespeare
200
What is a simile?
compares two apparently dissimilar things using like or as.
200
This poet wrote "Meditation 17"
John Donne
200
Two important characteristics of Romanticism are
Love of Nature and Emotion
200
George Orwell
What is the Modern Period?
300
Who is the central character of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth?
Macbeth
300
What literary concept means to give an inanimate object human characteristics?
Personification
300
In the first paragraph of Meditation 17, Donne uses this conceit to compare God to a
Publisher
300
In "She Walks in Beauty" the poet compares a woman to
the night and stars
300
Charles Dickens
What is the Victorian Period?
400
Based upon the information in Act 1 of The Tragedy of Macbeth, what appears to be Macbeth's character flaw?
a desire for power
400
A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter is called a?
sonnet
400
What literary concept applies to the following: "Death thou shalt die."
Paradox
400
life centered around ancestral tribes or clans that ruled themselves
What is the Anglo-Saxon Period?
400
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, William Blake
What is Romanticism?
500
In the Tragedy of Macbeth, in what way is Lady Macbeth stronger than her husband?
She stands firm when Macbeth begins to waiver in his deadly purpose.
500
What kind of figurative language is used in this line? "The lord is my shepherd; I shall not want."
Metaphor
500
In "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" Donne compares the relationship between the man and woman to this object
Compass
500
William the Conqueror is crowned king
What is the Medieval Period?
500
Bede
What is the Anglo-Saxon Period?
M
e
n
u