TRAGIC
A person of noble/high standing that experiences a downfall due to their fatal flaw.
What is a TRAGIC HERO?
A statement that is self-contradictory but proves to be true both ways.
What is a PARADOX?
In William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, the paradox 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair' supports what theme?
A) Appearance versus reality.
B) Good versus evil.
C) Greed and ambition.
D) Supernatural.
What is A) Appearance versus reality.?
A _______________ consists of a group of _______________.
Essays and stories consist of paragraphs
Only two words are used:
Bars Stanzas Lines
Rhymes Verses Forms
What is Stanzas and Lines?
What is this an example of?
Like clues and fairies in a ring. (Act IV)
What is SIMILE?
Which plot detail fits the following trait?
Excessive Pride / Hubris
Despite being warned over the course of the tragedy, tragic heroes are too proud (and too stubborn) to heed the advice of those warning them.
Lady Macbeth commits suicide, yet Macbeth seems indifferent.
Banquo suggests that the witches' prophecies contain “half-truths”.
Macbeth murders Banquo in fear that his descendents will overthrow him.
Lady Macbeth attacks Macbeth’s masculinity.
What is 2. Banquo suggests that the witches' prophecies contain “half-truths”.?
What is this an example of?
Fair is foul, and foul is fair. (Act I)
What is PARADOX?
When an author drops hints about future events without mentioning it specifically.
What is FORESHADOWING?
How do you identify rhyme scheme?
What is By assigning letters to each new rhyme scheme starting with 'A'?
What is this an example of?
I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confined (Act III)
What is ALLITERATION?
Which of the following examples BEST demonstrates Lady Macbeth’s portrayal of the femme fatale archetype?
Lady Macbeth acts kind towards King Duncan when he arrives.
Lady Macbeth tired to cover for Macbeth when he starts to act odd in front of their guests at the dinner banquet.
Lady Macbeth uses Macbeth’s ambition and pride to persuade him to kill King Duncan, insisting that a real man would be true to his word and follow through.
Lady Macbeth is placed on suicide watch by the doctor.
What is 3. Lady Macbeth uses Macbeth’s ambition and pride to persuade him to kill King Duncan, insisting that a real man would be true to his word and follow through.?
a hint or reference to a well known person, place, or “thing” in literature, film, culture etc.
What is ALLUSION?
Which conflict is not present in 'Macbeth'?
Person vs...?
What is Character vs Nature?
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife.”
What does the figurative language in this line suggest about Macbeth?
What is TORMENTED/TROUBLED?
How is Lady Macbeth a femme fatale?
In Act IV, the witches give Macbeth what appears to be a favorable prophecy, which gives him a false sense of security. Macbeth has Macduff's family murdered. After speaking to the witches, Macbeth feel his future is secure.
What is this an example of?
What is HUBRIS?
the reception of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words that are closely grouped together
What is ALLITERATION?
How does the seemingly impossible prophecies end up becoming true?
What is Birnam Woods Tree Branches used to cover troops marching and Macduff as a c-section?
● “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.” Lady Macbeth, Act 1.5
● “False face must hide what false heart doth know.” Macbeth, Act 1.7
● “And make our faces vizards* to our hearts, disguising what they are.” Macbeth, Act 3.2
What do these lines reveal about Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?
a. They are gracious and filled with integrity.
b. They are kind at heart, but appear malicious.
c. They wear a “false face” and deceive those around them.
d. They are confused and frequently change their minds.
What is C. They wear a “false face” and deceive those around them.?
What is Macbeth's HAMARTIA?
What is HIS AMBITION?
What is Macbeth's Peripeteia (Reversal)?
What is His murder of Banquo and Fleance?
What is this an example of?
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? (Act II)
*Neptune= a Roman God
What is ALLUSION?
Which is not an example of Appearance vs. Reality?
a. The prophecies given to Macbeth.
b. Lady Macbeth insisting Macbeth "Look like the innocent flower,/ But be the serpent underneath it."
c. Seyton revealing crucial news to Macbeth.
d. Macbeth seeing hallucinations of ghosts and bloody daggers.
What is C. Seyton revealing crucial news to Macbeth.
What is the rhyme scheme?
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What is AABBCCDD?
Double, double toil and trouble; ____
Fire burn and caldron bubble. ____
Fillet of a fenny snake, ____
In the caldron boil and bake; ____
Eye of newt and toe of frog, ____
Wool of bat and tongue of dog, ____
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,___
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing, ____
For a charm of powerful trouble, ___
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. ___
Double, double toil and trouble; ____
Fire burn and caldron bubble. ____
WHAT IS THE RHYME SCHEME?
What is AA BBCCDDAA AA?