Short Answer
What do you read first, the question or the text?
The question
What is a duologue?
Two characters within a conversation together.
What is a hyperbole?
An exaggeration.
Who is the king at the beginning of the play?
King Duncan
What pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables does Macbeth speak in?
Unstressed, Stressed x5
What do you need to include in a three mark question?
Topic Sentence, Evidence, Effect, Analysis.
What is a soliloquy?
When a character is giving a long speech and no one else in on the stage.
What is anaphora?
The repetition of a beginning of a phrase or sentence.
Who is Macbeth friend who is with at the beginning of the play?
Banquo.
What pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables do the Witches speak in?
Stressed, Unstressed x5
How much time should you leave for a 3 mark question?
7.5 minutes
What is this an example of?
[Thunder and lightning sound]
Stage Directions
Name the 5 types of sensory imagery
Tactile, Olfactory, Gustatory, Auditory, Visual
Who is Scotland fighting at the beginning of the play?
Rebels and Norway
What is the meter called that Macbeth speaks in?
Iambic Pentameter
What should a 5 mark question include?
Topic Sentence, Evidence, Effect, Analysis, Evidence, Effect, Analysis, Link.
What is dramatic irony?
When the audience knows something that the characters do not.
What is a paradox?
When a statement contradicts itself, but is somehow true.
Who discovers Duncan's body?
Macduff
What is the meter called that the Witches speak in?
Trochaic Verse
When writing about the effect, what should you avoid and what should you aim for.
Avoid effect on audience; talk about effect on meaning.
What is an apostrophe?
When a character is addressing an object, an idea, or a person who is not present
What is an epistrophe?
The repetition of the end of a phrase or sentence
What are the three prophecies Macbeth receives the first time he visits the witches?
Beware Macduff
None of woman born shall harm Macbeth
Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him
Name another type of meter apart from the two studied in class.
Anapestic
Dactylic
Spondee