Ex: Doubtful is stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art.
What is Simile
100
Ex: When Macbeth--Ex: "First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed" indicates Macbeth's struggle with the idea of killing Duncan.
What is Internal Conflict?
100
Ex: [Thunder and lighting. Enter three witches]
What is stage directions?
100
Ex: Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello
What is tragic hero
100
How writers reveal characters through speech, dress, manners, and actions
What is Characterization?
200
Ex: My gashes cry for help.
What is personification
200
Struggle between two separate forces.
What is External Conflict?
200
Physical movement of a character during a play
What is gestures?
200
When the characters in a play experience reversals of fortune and suffering.
What is tragedy
200
A comic scene that interrupts intensely dramatic moments.
What is Comic Relief?
300
Making a non-literal comparison without using like, as, or than.
What is metaphor
300
Ex: The witches' prophetic greeting starts Macbeth's rise to power and fall from grace.
What is Rising Action?
300
Ex: "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown, without my stir."
What is aside?
300
A weakness that cause that fall of the tragic hero.
What is tragic flaw
300
Ex: When Macbeth learns that Macduff is not "born of woman," he knows that his number is up.
What is Recognition?
400
A non-literal extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole
400
The action following the climax that moves the play toward the resolution
What is Falling Action?
400
A lengthy speech in a play delivered to characters or to the audience.
What is monologue?
400
Ex: Macbeth's murder of Duncan represents a point after which Macbeth cannot return.
What is climax
400
The sorting out or unraveling of the plot at the end of a play.
What is Resolution/Denouement?
500
Ex: And yet wouldst wrong by win.
What is alliteration
500
Ex: Malcolm escapes to England, which causes Macbeth to be unable to kill him.
What is Complication?
500
Ex: Macbeth's "Is this a dagger" speech.
What is soliloquy?
500
The action at the end of a tragedy that initiates the falling action.
What is catastrophe
500
Ex: Banquo is a type of opposite character from Macbeth as he refuses to take the witches' prophecies seriously.