Macbeth Acts 1-3 Review Game

Define Tragic Hero

• A hero who is of great value but has a flaw that ultimately is a defect of the character

• When the character lets greed and power get to their heads

• When Lady Macbeth acts selfishly and pressures Macbeth to continue to murder.

Define Tragic Flaw

• The confusion of a characters trait that leads them to their downfall.

• There is a flaw in a character such as greed, ambition, inability to determine what right and wrong is.

Comic Relief

• A piece of irony integrated and repeated throughout the play

• comedic timing to break up two events within the play

• inclusion of a humorous character to relieve the tension in the literary piece or use of witty dialogue to

   contrast seriousness

Soliloquy

• when a person speaks directly to the audience on stage.

• A person speaking alone and sharing their inner thoughts on stage

• When the character of the play uses alliteration

Aside

• When a character speaks on stage but the other characters do not hear them

• When a character talks to another character in private on stage

• When a character talks about their own tragic flaw

Dramatic Irony

• when a character dramatizes irony in a play

• the audience is aware of information that the character does not know

• the audience knows the same information that the characters do

Allusion

• a passing  reference to literature,  historical events, characters, places to create an image in the mind of the reader.

• using imagery in the play

• when a character draws visuals in the play or their audience

Where does the play open?

• in the middle of the battle

• At Duncan's castle

• At Macbeth's castle

• On the heathland with the witches

Which Thane does Duncan have put to death?

• Thane of Fife

• Thane of Cawdor

• Thane of Glamis

• Thane of Glasgow

What do the witches promise to Banquo?

• He will be King

• He will be a general

• He will be father to a line of kings

• He will be Thane of Cawdor