Literary Devices (related to Macbeth)

Question 1

What are speeches that allow characters to reveal their inner thoughts/feelings to audiences?

Accepted Answer

Soliloquies

Question 2

What is a figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to non-human things?

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 3

What is a statement that has two different meanings?

Accepted Answer

Double entendre

Question 4

What allows a playwright to include elements of humour in plays that are otherwise serious?

Accepted Answer

Comic relief

Question 5

What is an indirect way of expressing something?

Accepted Answer

Euphemism

Question 6

What is a reference to a historical or literary figure, happening, or event?

Accepted Answer

Allusion

Question 7

What is an implication?

Accepted Answer

A hint or a suggestion contained in the writing.

Question 8

Lady Macbeth: “The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures.” What is this an example of?

Accepted Answer

Simile

Question 9

What literary device refers to hints about what might happen at a later point?

Accepted Answer

Foreshadowing

Question 10

Which language device refers to the rhythm and rhyme scene of the play's language?

Accepted Answer

Verse structure

Question 11

Which literary device refers to words that appeal to the senses?

Accepted Answer

Imagery

Question 12

What creates drama or tension in a text?

Accepted Answer

Conflict

Question 13

What is Shakespeare's first name?

Accepted Answer

William

Question 14

Hyperbole is an...

Accepted Answer

exaggeration

Question 15

Is dramatic irony when the audience knows something that the characters onstage do not?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 16

Which literary device is a way of comparing two unlike things using like or as?

Accepted Answer

Simile

Question 17

What's a person, object, action or place that stands for more than its obvious meaning?

Accepted Answer

Symbol

Question 18

Which technique refers to the overall feeling or atmosphere in a passage?

Accepted Answer

Mood

Questions 18