Word Play
Figurative Language
Who Said It?
Literary Terms
Drama Terms
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This term is defined as: a word or phrase that can be understood in two ways
What is double entendre
100
This word means: not to be taken literally
What is figurative
100
He said: "Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires."
Who is Macbeth
100
Shakespeare writes in this type of English.
What is early modern English
100
This is a type of drama that ends with the main character suffering a major downfall.
What is tragedy
200
The phrase "that's what she said" creates this type of word play.
What is double entendre
200
This is a specific type of metaphor in which a comparison is made between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile
200
This character spoke the words, "Come, you spirits... unsex me here."
Who is Lady Macbeth
200
A literary work that is meant to be performed on stage is a called a/an...
What is a drama
200
This is a technique in drama where a character speaks to the audience but the other actors on stage do not acknowledge what is being said.
What is an aside
300
This word in the following joke makes a pun: How did Master Nucleus escape from prison? Through the cell wall.
What is cell
300
This character spoke the chilling words, "Is this a dagger which I see before me? The handle toward my hand?"
Who is Macbeth
300
Shakespeare's works are part of this literary period, whose name means "awakening."
What is the renaissance
300
Watch this video on another tab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37oJqWp4rJM In this clip, Jack Black's character gives one of these.
What is a monologue
400
This word in the following joke makes a pun: I used to be addicted to soap, but I'm clean now.
What is clean
400
Most of Shakespeare's allusions are to these types of gods and goddesses.
What is roman
400
This character, after ordering the execution of a traitor, said "What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won."
Who is Duncan
400
In verse, this is an unstressed syllable followed immediately by a stressed one.
What is iambic pentameter
400
Watch this video on another tab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRzvdQh8D2Q This clip is an example of this type of dialogue.
What is a soliloquy
500
Translated from French, "double entendre" means this.
What is two meanings
500
This quote from Macbeth is an allusion to a roman god, but is also this type of figurative language. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
What is hyperbole
500
This character challenged the witches by demanding, "If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate."
Who is Banquo
500
Gender expectations are an example of this literary device in Macbeth.
What is a motif
500
Watch this clip in another tab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onunI7e5DpE The father of the bride does one of these in the clip.
What is an interior monologue
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