3dm Shakespeare

Tragedies

100

Social class whose downfall the tragedies typically portray. 

'Social Elite'/'Upper class'

200

The setting of Romeo & Juliet.

'fair Verona'

300

A device often used in drama when a character speaks to themselves, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience.

'A Soliloquy' / 'A Monologue'

400

The role of mercy in tragedies.

There is none. 

500

'Indecision' might be Hamlet's, 'Ambition' Macbeth's. 

'The Fatal Flaw'

Sonnets

100

Number of lines used in a sonnet.

'14'

200

4 line paragraphs in a sonnet.

'Quatrain'

300

Subjects of the sonnets. 

'Brevity of life', 'Transience of beauty' & 'Trappings of Desire' 

400

Recipients of the sonnets.

'The Fair Bright Young Man/Youth', 'The Dark Lady' & 'The Rival Poet'

500

Rhytmic lines consisting of 5 unstressed and 5 stressed syllables. 

'Iambic pentameter'

Macbeth

100

The King who is most unjustly murdered at the beginning of the play. 

King Duncan

200

The second prophecy of the play. 

“Fear not, Macbeth. No man that’s born of woman Shall e'er have power upon thee.” & “Fear not, till Birnam wood do come to Dunsinane”;

300

The wife of the title character who persuades him into 'bloody deeds'. 

Lady Macbeth

400

The morale of Macbeth.

'Power/ambition etc. corrupts' 

'We do have control over our own lives' 

500

According to this world view, the order of everything can be disturbed by e.g. regicide.

'The Elizabethan World View'

Literary Devices

100

Term used to talk about place, time and environment of a text. 

'The Setting'

200

Term used to describe characters that undergoes a development throughout a text. 

'Dynamic characters'

300

Literary device used in the Romeo & Juliet line; "My bounty is as the boundless sea." 

'Simile'

400

Inner workings of a human-being which e.g. The bloody hands in Macbeth symbolise. 

'Conscience'

500

Term used when a character/narrator predicts or suggests a future event of a text, such as the witches' prophecy in Macbeth. 

'Foreshadowing'

Random

100

The 45th and current President of the United States of America.

Donald Trump

200

Italian painter of The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and The Vitruvian Man.

Leonardo Da Vinci 

300

16 year old Swedish environmental activist who came to prominence in 2018. 

Greta Thunberg

400

Seattle born, world famous guitarist, who died in 1970 at the age of 27.  

Jimi Hendrix

500

Famous Norwegian playwright and author of "A Doll's House."

Henrik Ibsen