English 10 Midterm key people & terms

Who tells Malcolm of what Macbeth is doing in Scotland?

Who is Banquo's son?

What's the genre of A Christmas Carol?

Purging of emotions

Where does Malcolm go after Duncan's death?

This spirits light fluctuates in the darkness

Long speech said by one character to another.

Who are Lennox and Ross?

Man of high standard who falls from that high because of a flaw that has affected many

The point/moment in a literary work in which a character arrives at a significant realization

Statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

Act/Stave 4

A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists.

Who is Siward?

Who is "as dead as a doornail" and introduces Scrooge to the inciting incident?

A phrase or expression that is worn out and common

Act/Stave 5

Who is Scrooge's sister?

Something referred to as evil or good

Purity, Hope, Faith, and Goodness

Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

What is the inciting incident in A Christmas Carol?

What's the genre of Macbeth?

What is a motif of all of the staves?

Who are Duncan's sons?

Why are the phantoms outside Scrooge's window upset?

Does Scrooge help Tiny Tim at the end of A Christmas Carol?

A type of lord

What forces join together to kill Macbeth?

Said by a character in a play that is to be heard by the audience but not by other characters.

Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

What is the Inciting Incident in Macbeth?

What do the portly gentlemen in Scrooge's shop want?

External Conflict

Internal Conflict

Opposite of something: characters can be complete (this) of each other

What does Mrs. Dilber do?

Foreshadowing

Who discovers Duncan's body?

What is the second spirit's personality like?

How does Lady Macbeth die?

The event or decision that begins a story's problem

Act/Stave 3

What is Macbeth by the end of the tragedy?

Exceptional person of great importance, tremendous downfall with consequences, has tragic flaw

What do ignorance and want symbolize?

When does Scrooge realize the error in his ways?

Who is framed for the death of King Duncan?

What is Macbeth's tragic flaw?

Who did Scrooge apprentice with?

Opposites. When one does something, the other reacts, and vice versa.

What's different about the final spirit?

What does the final spirit look like?

Allusion

The meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by characters in the play.

Comparison not using like or as

A tremendous weakness that causes the hero's complete downfall and/or destruction

What does the second ghost symbolize?

The head witch

Episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections

Two lines of the same length that end in rhyme and complete one thought. 

When a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem.

Whos grave does Scrooge visit?

Who committed treason towards King Duncan & was speared to death by Macbeth? 

Comparison using like or as

Act/Stave 2

Who is Belle?

Whos descendants will be kings?

Statement in which a character says something but means something else. Usually intentional

An instruction in the text of a play

First Act/Stave

What happens at the end of stave one?

Blood, night , darkness, manhood, appearance vs. reality

Where does Donalbain go after Duncan's death?