Literary Terms
The use of something to represent something in a deeper meaning.
What is Symbolism?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is an Alliteration?
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a Simile?
A pig who serves as Napoleon's mouthpiece and Minister of Propaganda to trick the animals.
Who is Squealer?
Macbeth's setting.
What is Scotland?
A books main point, lesson, message,or moreal. Functional and often universal ideas explored in literary works.
What is a Theme?
The qualities of an argument that make it truly persuasive.
Ex: Ethos, Logos, Pathos
What are Rhetorical Appeals?
A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
What is Irony?
A symbol that represents the evolution of the animals and is also the motivator for the animals to keep working.
What is the Windmill
Caused Macbeth to go through with killing Duncan.
What is seeing a floating dagger?
The use of humor, irony, or ridecule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices mainly in politics.
What is a Satire?
Fallacies of argument, don't allow for the open, two-way exchange of ideas upon which meaningful conversations depend. Instead, they distract the reader with various appeals instead of using sound reasoning.
What are Rhetorical Fallacies?
An extreme exaggeration in order to make a point.
What is a Hyperbole?
Boxer's fate
What is sent of to a glue factory to be killed?
Killed Macbeth and why he is not born of woman.
Who is Macduff because he was born through a Cesarean Section?
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is an Allegory?
Unrestricted, unedited writing that reflects on's observations or feelings about a certain person, event, or item.
What is a Stream of Consciousness?
Two statements that seem to mean the opposite of one another, paired together to create a contrast.
What is an Antithesis?
The reason for forbidding the singing of Beasts of England.
What is a song of Rebellion, and, with the Rebellion completed, is no longer needed?
The witches profecies (all of them)
1. Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland, and Banquo will father a line of Kings (which didn't happen).
2. Macbeth's rule will end when Burnam wood moves to Dunsinane. And a man not born of woman will end you.
A coming of age story.
What is a bildungsroman?
Poems:
First is a japanese poem with 3 lines that goes 5 syllables/7 syllables/5 syllables and often focuses on imagry from nature.
Second is a peom from an Italian origin that has 14 lines and is in iambic pentameter
1) What is a Haiku?
2) What is a Sonnet?
An understatement using a negative word.
Ex: "not a bad singer"
What is a Litote?
Reason for the slaughter of many animals at Napoleon's hands.
What is the animals confessing to various crimes (that they did not commit just because they wanted to be killed)?
What Macbeth told the others about killing the guards and the real reason he did.
(That's how you phrase it Mrs. Gore!!)
What is Macbeth's rage that made him kill the guards when he really needed them to keep quiet?