Macbeth vocab

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Archetypes: A pattern in literature found across various cultures. An archetype can be a plot, character, image, or setting, e.g., death and rebirth associated with winter and spring.

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A pattern in literature found across various cultures. An archetype can be a plot, character, image, or setting, e.g., death and rebirth associated with winter and spring.

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Tragedy: A dramatic work presenting the downfall of a dignified character involved in significant events.

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A dramatic work that presents the downfall of a dignified character involved in historically, morally, or socially significant events.

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Tragic hero: A main character with a tragic flaw leading to destruction, set in motion by a decision often an error in judgment.

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Tragic hero

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Dramatic irony

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Readers know more about a situation or character than the characters do.

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Soliloquy

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A character speaks to themselves, expressing innermost thoughts as if thinking aloud.

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Aside: A short speech directed to the audience or another character, not heard by others on stage.

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Aside

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Iambic pentameter

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A metrical pattern of five feet, each made up of two syllables: first unstressed, second stressed.

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Repetition: a technique where a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis.

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a technique where a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis.

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Parallelism

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the use of similar grammatical constructions to express related or equal ideas.

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Rhetorical Question

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Does not require a reply; writers use them to suggest their arguments make the answer obvious.