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Dramatic Devices
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#AnythingGoes!
100
This is a momentary break from the action of a play in which a character reveals how he or she is responding to events for the audience's benefit.
What is an aside?
100
To what hurly-burly is Witch Two referring when she suggests the Weird Sisters meet Macbeth?  a) the murder of Duncan b) the murder of Banquo and attempted murder of Fleance c) the war with Norway d) the war with England
What is the war with Norway
100
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
What is The Weird Sisters or Witches?
100
This is a genre whose function is to inspire change through critiquing follies in society, usually through humor.
What is satire
100
The eldest son of Duncan, he was named Prince of Cumberland and his successor.
What is Malcolm
200
"Nought's had, all's spent" is an example of...
What is antithesis?
200
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas -----------, Making the green one red."
What is incarnadine
200
" ...[L]ook like the innocent flower,/But be the serpent under't..."
What is Lady Macbeth
200
A play on words or the sound of words to achieve particular effects such as: Romeo and Juliet (Act I scene IV) Mercutio: “Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.” Romeo: “Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”
What is pun
200
This is when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony
300
This is a fast-paced banter between two characters that creates tension and anxiety, such as: MACBETH When? LADY MACBETH Now. MACBETH As I descended? LADY MACBETH Ay.
What is stichomythia?
300
"Knock, knock! Who's there, in the other devil's name? Faith, here's an _____, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not _____ to heaven: O, come in, _____.
What is equivocator, equivocate
300
"knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, here's an English tailor come hither, for stealing out of a French hose: come in, tailor; here you may roast your goose."
What is the porter
300
The meter in which the Weird Sisters (and other supernatural characters) speak.
What is catalectic trochaic tetrameter
300
A regular pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line or lines of poetry; the rhythm
What is meter
400
In Greek drama, it is comprised of 10-15 men who act as one to indicate to the audience how they should be responding to the events and characters of the play. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the Old Man in 2.4 has a similar function.
What is the chorus?
400
"Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and, I fear, Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said It should not stand in thy _____, But that myself should be the root and father Of many kings."
What is posterity
400
"Do you find/Your patience so predominant in your nature/That you can let this go?/Are you so gospell'd/To pray for this good man and for his issue,/Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave/And beggar'd yours for ever?"
What is Macbeth
400
A gentle, sympathetic form of satire that mildly mocks the subject.  The audience is asked to laugh at themselves as much as the players involved.
What is Horatian
400
In the following speech, the rhetorical appeal most used: "The gracious Duncan/Was pitied of Macbeth: marry, he was dead:/And the right-valiant Banquo walk'd too late;/Whom, you may say, if't please you, Fleance kill'd,/For Fleance fled: men must not walk too late."
What is logos.
500
Similar to a monologue, it is a long speech that helps the audience understand the inner workings of a character.
What is a soliloquy?
500
"Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for _____, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief!"
What is gall
500
"There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,/The nearer bloody."
What is Donalbain
500
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite, such as: "not bad".
What is Litotes?
500
MACBETH The rest is labour, which is not used for you: I'll be myself the ------ and make joyful The hearing of my wife with your approach; So humbly take my leave.
What is harbinger