Literary Terms 1
Literary terms 2
Literary terms 3
Shakesperean time and thatre
Quotes etc from the play
100
The structure of the story
What is the plot
100
The placing together of two opposing words or ideas in order to show a contrast (e.g. fair is foul and foul is fair)
What is anti-thesis?
100
5 act structure made by Aristotle
What is the Senecean 5 act structure
100
Part of the audience that stood on the floor watching the play
What are groundlings?
100
Macbeth’s fatal flaw
What is ambition
200
The term used for repetition of sounds of words – Peter painted a pink plant
What is alliteration?
200
Two lines of equal length that rhyme one after another
What is a rhyming couplet?
200
A release of emotional tension within the audience
What is Catharsis?
200
Name of Shakespeare’s Theatre Company
What is The King's Men?
200
Macbeth’s two potentials
What is greatness and evil
300
The repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
300
A 10-syllable line of verse with five unstressed and five stressed syllables
What is iambic pentameter?
300
A comparison using ’as or ’like’
What is a simile?
300
The public theatre near the Thames
What is the Globe?
300
‘Lesser than Macbeth and greater, and ’not so happy, yet much happier’?
Who is Banquo?
400
A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?
400
Lines, which are not end-stopped
What is run-on lines
400
The use of mild indirect words instead more accurate words or ideas, i.e. ’pass away’ instead of ’die’
What is euphemism?
400
Historical Time in which Shakespeare wrote his plays
What is the Rennaissance
400
Imagery used by Lady Macbeth in act 1 scene 5 meaning to act false
What is ‘Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it’
500
A monologue spoken by a character who is alone on stage, revealing his/hers thoughts and motives
What is soliloquy?
500
Term used about a hierarchical structure in which God is at the top
What is the chain of being?
500
Term for the witches’ predictions
What is foreboding?
500
The world view which the Elizabethan people were closer to than the new ideas that were introduced during the Renaissance period
What is the medieval way of thinking?
500
The Witches prediction about Banquo’s future
What is ’Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none’
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