Literary Concepts
Shakespeare
Plot
Plot 2
Literary Concepts 2
100
Rhyming Couplet
What is a pair of rhyming lines?
100
Young boys
Who played female parts in plays?
100
She wants to have manly qualities.
What is why Lady Macbeth wants to be unsexed?
100
Bloody child
What is the second apparition?
100
Allusion
What is an unexplained reference to an outside work, person, or event?
200
Blank Verse
What is unrhymed iambic pentameter?
200
Shouted out and threw fruits and vegetables.
What did an audience do when they disliked the play?
200
Floating dagger and servants praying
What is what Macbeth saw when he went to murder Duncan?
200
A child with a crown holding a tree branch.
What is the third apparition?
200
Comic Relief
What is a humorous moment in serious drama for emotional respite?
300
Monologue
What is a long speech spoken by a character to himself or an audience?
300
Comedies and Tragedies
What are plays Shakespeare is famous for?
300
You shall be turned to stone
What is Macduff's allusion to the Gorgon?
300
Tree branches as armor, shields, and camouflage.
What is the third prophecy coming true?
300
Verbal Irony
What is when a writer or character says one thing but means another?
400
Aside
What is short speech or comment delivered beyond the hearing of other characters on stage?
400
Anne Hathaway
Who was Shakespeare's wife?
400
3 weird sister's boss
Who is Hectate?
400
Malcolm is a horrible person with awful vices.
What is testing Macduff's honesty?
400
Dramatic Irony
What is when the audience knows something a character does not know?
500
Soliloquy
What are thoughts spoken aloud by a character unaware of any audience?
500
Drama
What the Renaissance brought more interest of to England?
500
To raise an army with Malcolm and help him claim the throne back.
Why is Macduff in England?
500
Chimney's falling, high winds, loud thunder, lots of lighting.
What is the storm foreshadowing Duncan's murder?
500
Situational Irony
What is the difference between happenings and audience expectations?
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