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Literary Devices and Poetic Structures in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'
Literary Devices and Poetic Structures in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'
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You're feeling confident about the assessment task tomorrow
And if I should fail? (NO)
If fate will have me pass, then fate may give me an At Standard (MAYBE)
Fate doth seem to have me crowned withal (YES)
Ring the alarum bell! (PLEASE HELP ME)
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What features can be found in this quote from 'Macbeth'?
All this and MORE!
SHARED iambic pentameter
Imagery
Iambic pentameter
3
What is imagery?
Something that is made-up or not real
Descriptive language related to the five senses
Using pictures as well as words
An adult butterfly
4
Blank verse is spoken by what kind of character in Shakespeare's plays?
Peasants and servants
Crazy people
Witches acting suspiciously on a blasted heath
Noble-born men and women (the main characters)
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Okay, but surely THIS is a soliloquy, right?
True
False
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What features can be found in this quote from 'Macbeth'?
Antithesis
Rhyming verse
Imagery
All three!
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Blank verse has...
Meter but no rhyme
No meter and no rhyme
Meter and rhyme
Rhyme but no meter
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What type of structure is used in this quote from 'Macbeth'?
Rhyming verse
The first recorded knock-knock joke
Prose
Blank verse
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A soliloquy is just there to give the other actors time to change costumes backstage
True
False
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Dramatic irony is...
When the audience knows something important that a character doesn't know
SHARK
Using a concrete object to represent an abstract idea
The 'big idea' explored in a text
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Why did Shakespeare use so much imagery in his plays?
All of these
To show how his characters are feeling
To create vivid scenery and mood for his audience without fancy sets
To confuse English students 400 years in the future (probably)
12
Iambic pentameter has...
All of the above
Ten beats (syllables) per line
The emphasis on the even beats
A rhythm like a heartbeat
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What is a soliloquy?
A character lying by telling a deliberately vague truth
A character speaking about their feelings (to themselves and the audience)
A speech meant to persuade or inspire
A reference to another text
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Why did Shakespeare use antithesis?
To suggest that a character might be untrustworthy
All of these
To create a sense of chaos or 'wrongness'
To show when characters are feeling confused or conflicted
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Why DID Shakespeare write soliloquies, then?
To show the character's 'true self' to the audience
All of these
To highlight a character's inner conflict and turmoil
To engage the audience by making the character seem complex and real
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Shakespeare used dramatic irony to engage the audience by building tension and suspense
True
False
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Antithesis is when two opposing ideas or images are placed together to highlight their difference or contrast
True
False
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Characters who speak WITHOUT using iambic pentameter could be...
Conflicted, tormented, or not in their right mind
Either
Supernatural, magical, and possibly untrustworthy
Neither, they are perfectly normal and everything is FINE
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This quote from Duncan in Act I scene vi is an example of...
Dramatic irony and antithesis
Soliloquy and imagery
Imagery and dramatic irony
Imagery and rhyming verse
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How do you identify prose in a Shakespeare play?
It has no meter OR rhyme
All of these
Some lines start with capital letters and some don't
The character is poor, crazy, or reading a letter
