The Bard
Let's Parlay
Literary Devices
Macbeth Characters
Macbeth Acts I & II
100
An open form (see Poetry analysis) of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern
What is free verse?
100
A recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work
What is a motif?
100
The individuals that predict that Macbeth will be the King of Scotland and that Banquo will birth kings
Who are the Weird Sisters?
100
Macbeth's First noble title
What is the Thane of Glamis?
200
Sheakepseare's wife
Who is Anne Hathaway?
200
the opposite of free verse; follows a metrical pattern and/or rhythm
What is fixed verse?
200
A speech device used in poetry or in the script for a theater play, it is used to show the actual speech of a character, transcribe non-standard speech, preserve a particular rhythm.
What is a elision?
200
Traitor to Scotland
Who is Macdonwald?
200
The way Lady Macbeth prevents the guards from witnessing the murder plot
What is she drugs them?
300
He co-owner of this playhouse.
What is The Globe Theater
300
Consists of fourteen lines, each line containing ten syllables and written in iambic pentameter, in which a pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is repeated five times. The rhyme scheme in a a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
300
A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true
What is a paradox?
300
The mastermind behind King Duncan's death
Who is Lady Macbeth?
300
The irony in which King Duncan greets Lady Macbeth
What is dramatic irony because she has plotted his murder.
400
Allowed Shakespeare to perform his plays in his court
What is King James I?
400
A stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines of verse
What is a quatrain?
400
A form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words,
What is a pun?
400
The noble and generous king of Scotland
Who is King Duncan?
400
The individuals fled Scotland after King Duncan's Death
What is Donalbain and Malcolm?
500
The number of sonnets that Shakespeare wrote
What is 154 sonnets?
500
Th ordinary language that we use everyday
What is prose?
500
A question being asked that already has an answer to.
What is rhetorical question?
500
The son of Banquo
Who is Fleance?
500
The visitors who pop up at the Inverness castle and discover King Duncan's death
Who are Macduff and Lennox?
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