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Literature Terms
"The Bard"
Say What?
Why the...?
100
Who kills Macbeth?
Who is Macduff
100
Repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds.
What is Alliteration.
100
What is the name of Shakespeare's theater in London?
What is the Globe.
100
Who says it and what are they talking about: Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Who is Lady Macbeth. She is talking about the blood she sees on her hands.
100
Why is there controversy surrounding Shakespeare's plays. Support your answer.
What is people think he didn't write them because of his lack of formal post-secondary education.
200
How does Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane?
What is the English army cuts down tree branches to disguise their numbers as they close in on the castle. In doing so, as they march, it appears the forest is moving toward the castle.
200
Attacking the arguer and not the argument; also known as mud-slinging
What is Ad hominem.
200
Name the centuries Shakespeare wrote in.
What is the 16th and 17th centuries.
200
Who said it and what are they talking about? She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Who is Macbeth. He is referring to Lady Macbeth's death.
200
Why are Macbeth and Banquo foils?
What is Banquo is promised glory by the witches, but he figures out quickly that they're no good. Rather than become obsessed with their prophetic promise, he just sits on it, always promising to talk about it later. But Macbeth ignores prudence, caution, good sense, and all those things your parents want you to have in order to carry out his own nefarious interpretation of the prophecy.
300
List all of the FIRST prophecies made by the witches.
What is Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth will become King, Banquo's heirs will become kings.
300
This type of narration includes an omniscient narrator or one that can tell what all characters are thinking and feeling.
What is third-person narration.
300
Name one of the influences on Shakespeare's texts.
What is Greek, Roman, Christian.
300
Who says it and what are they talking about? A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd "Give me," quoth I. "Aroint thee!" the rump-fed ronyon cries. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger; But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
Who is the witch. She is talking about a sailor's wife who made her mad so she messed with the woman's husband while he was at sea.
300
What symptoms does Lady Macbeth show of madness?
What is sleepwalking and talking in her sleep.
400
How many kings does Scotland have throughout the play?
What is three.
400
The comparison of two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one.
What is analogy.
400
Name one of the elements that makes up a tragedy.
What is fatal flaw of the hero, fall of noblemen, victims of external pressure.
400
Who says it and what are they talking about? The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th’access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th’ effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ‘Hold, hold!’
Who is Lady Macbeth. She is asking for supernatural help that will give her the ability to shed her womanly qualities in order to be able to kill Duncan.
400
According to which character sleeping provokes sleep, lechery, and urine.
Who is the porter.
500
List the final prophecies and how they were resolved.
What is Beware Macduff - he kills Macbeth Macbeth shall not be vanquished until Burnam Wood come to Dunsinane - the army cuts down branches No person born of woman shall harm Macbeth - Macduff was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped." Banqo is still seen with a line of kings as heirs - this is resolved in real life as the current king of England is a descendent of Banquo.
500
The use of inoffensive or neutral words to describe a harsher, more serious concept.
What is euphemism.
500
Name one of the elements of a comedy.
What is language (witty, cleaver word play, metaphors, insults), love that overcomes obstacles, more complex plots (twists and turns), mistaken identities
500
Who says it and what are they talking about? why then, God's soldier be hi! Had I as many son's as I have hairs, I would not wish them to a fairer death. And so his knell is knoll'd.
Who is Siward. He is talking about how proud he is that his son died fighting Macbeth on the battlefield.
500
The allusion made with the washing of the blood from the hands.
What is the biblical allusion to Pontius Pilate's speech when he delivered Jesus over to the crowd for crucifixion.
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