vocabulary
structure and literary devices
characters
Horrible Images!
Reasons why- These questions do not follow the answer in a question format.
100
Define Rising Action
What is the part in a play which builds suspense and moves the plot towards the climax.
100
tragic flaw
What is a weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero.(example: Oedipus's hot headedness and impulsiveness is what made him flee Corinth and kill his father- those are his tragic flaws.)
100
This character could be blamed for setting a horrible fate in motion because he/she attempts to kill a child, who winds up successfully killing her king.
Who is Jocasta?
100
This is an image Macbeth see before killing Duncan.
What is a floating dagger.
100
This is the reason Macbeth wants Fleance dead.
What is the witches' prophecy that his sons will be kings.
200
Climax
What is a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot.
200
Tragedy
A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse. In tragedy, catastrophe and suffering await many of the characters, especially the hero. The hero of a tragedy has a tragic flaw.
200
This is Duncan's oldest son.
Who is Malcolm?
200
This is what Oedipus does in order to stop the images of incest from running through his mind once he understands who he really is.
What is stabbing his eyes with broaches?
200
This is the reason Malcolm asks his knights to cover themselves with branches.
What is camouflage- so Macbeth won't know how many soldiers are coming for him.
300
Falling Action
What is he part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached.
300
Chorus
What is A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. Their leader is the choragos. Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus the King both contain an explicit chorus with a choragos. Tennessee Williams's Glass Menagerie contains a character who functions like a chorus.
300
This person is an all seeing mouthpiece of the gods. Being disrespectful to him could be seen as a form of heresy.
Who is Teiresias?
300
These two mammals go mad and eat each other the night of Duncan's death.
What are horses?
300
The reason Macbeth SAYS that he killed Duncan's gaurds.
What is they murdered Duncan and he could not contain his rage.
400
Dramatic Irony
What is irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
400
catharsis
What is The purging of the feelings of pity and fear that, according to Aristotle, occur in the audience of tragic drama. The audience experiences catharsis at the end of the play, following the catastrophe.
400
This man is a Thane who is sent by Duncan to tell Macbeth he is now a Thane.
Who is Ross?
400
This is said by whom and in what scenario, "Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry “Hold, hold!” "
Who is Lady Macbeth after receiving Macbeth's letter. (I will also accept Lady Macbeth before Duncan comes to Dunsinane Macbeth's castle which would be Glamis actually.)
400
Jocasta tells Oedipus not to believe in Prophecies because..
Because they are often wrong. There was a prophecy about her son killing her husband and marrying her, but that proved to be wrong because her son is dead (SHE thinks).
500
Magical Realism
What is a style of writing that depicts images or scenes of surreal fantasy in a representational or realistic way
500
Exposition
What is What is The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided. Ibsen's A Doll's House, for instance, begins with a conversation between the two central characters, a dialogue that fills the audience in on events that occurred before the action of the play begins, but which are important in the development of its plot.
500
He is a devout follower of the oracle of Apollo, and as the play opens, he is returning from the oracle with the news that Laius's killer must be found. He is a loyal friend to Oedipus, and ultimately remains forgiving and kind to Oedipus
Who is Creon?
500
On the eve of Duncan's murder, fierce bird of prey circles in the sky, but a smaller, less fierce, smaller bird of prey swoops in and successfully kills it. What are the two birds?
What is a falcon is killed by an owl?
500
Why is Macbeth a considered a tragedy?
What is because it is the story of a brave, good and loyal man going wrong and devolving into madness.
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