Vocab
capable of being touched or felt; tangible; easily perceptible, noticeable (adj)
Palpable
Rhythm /syllabic pattern that Shakespeare wrote in
Ex. da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM
Iambic Pentameter
Struggle and tension between within a character
Internal Conflict
Shakespeare's home
Statford-Upon-Avon (England)
Setting of Macbeth
Scotland
To overcome in battle or defeat (v)
Vanquish
The language that Shakespeare writes in
Early Modern English
Name of literary device for "word choice"
Diction
Name of the theater Shakespeare performed, directed, and acted in his plays
The Globe Theater
What the actors & crew will say aloud / call the play, Macbeth, when in the theater
"The Cursed Play" or "The Scottish Play"
Very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect (adj)
Lurid
Shakespearean word for "you"
Thou / Thee / Thy (depending on the sentence)
Name the following lit device that both of these quotes have in common:
"Fair is foul"
"Bellona's Bridgeroom"
Alliteration
Level of education Shakespeare received
Grammar School (nothing beyond)
Name of character who will go beyond their gender role
Lady Macbeth
severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance (adj)
Austere
Shakespearean word for "goodbye"
Adieu
A pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre
EX: 'O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright. / It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night' (Romeo & Juliet).
Rhyming Couplet
Name of the royal theater group that Shakespeare performed in for Queen Elizabeth
Lord Chamberlain's Men
Name of the people who stood outside in front of the stage ("the pit") when watching shows at the Globe Theater
Groundlings
happening by accident or chance rather than design; unexpected or unforeseen
Fortuitous
Lower social class characters (porters, merchants, craftsmen, etc) will speak in this, rather than poetry
Prose
A person, thing, or event that is placed in a historical time where it does not belong.
EX: a knight wearing a wristwatch in a movie set in the medieval era
Anachronism
Name of Shakespeare's first collection of plays and sonnets to be published
First Folio
Some critics believe that the play, Macbeth, is a critique and/or tribute of which real-life English King
King James I