Macbeth Literary Terms

A universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.

• symbol

• theme

• paradox

• soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A literary device in which something represents something else in addition to its literal meaning.

• theme

• symbol

• dramatic irony

• paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A statement or situation that seems illogical or self-contradictory, but may be logical or true.

• dramatic irony
• soliloquy
• theme
• paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A figure of speech that has two contradictory or opposite words appearing side by side.

• oxymoron

• equivocation

• symbol

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

When a character speaks directly to the audience, as though thinking aloud and other characters do not hear the words.

• equivocation

• theme

• paradox

• aside

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A speech by one character to other characters on stage.

• soliloquy

• equivocation

• monologue

• symbol

A speech by a character alone on stage that conveys the character’s thoughts.

• monologue

• theme

• symbol

• soliloquy

A statement that is ​open to more than one interpretation or deliberately misleading.

• equivocation

• theme

• solioquy

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4

A literary device that occurs when the audience or other characters know something that the speaker does not.

• monologue
• dramatic irony
• symbol
• oxymoron

a statement that is ​open to more than one interpretation or deliberately misleading.

• monologue
• theme
• solioquy
• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4