HMH Macbeth: Part 1

What is an archetype in the context of Shakespearean drama?

• A long speech given by a character on stage

• A character's secret thoughts revealed to the audience

• A familiar character type that appears over and over again in literature

• A dramatic technique used to build suspense

What is a tragic hero in Shakespearean tragedy?

• A character of low social rank who overcomes challenges

• A character who provides comic relief in the drama

• A character of high social rank with a tragic flaw that leads to a downfall

• A character who always survives at the end of the play

What is dramatic irony?

• When the audience knows less than the characters on stage

• When the audience knows something that a character does not know

• When the characters on stage know something that the audience does not know

• When nobody on stage or in the audience knows what is happening

What is a soliloquy?

• A conversation between two characters on stage

• A speech given by a character alone on stage, revealing private thoughts, feelings, and motivations

• A humorous interlude in a Shakespearean drama

• A character's remark to the audience that other characters can hear

What is an aside in Shakespearean drama?

• A character's remark that is heard by everyone on stage

• A character's remark that is intended to be heard by the audience only

• A character's remark that is intended to be heard by other characters but not the audience

• A character's monologue about the future events in the play

What type of plays did Shakespeare write that primarily used blank verse?

• Prose dramas

• Verse dramas

• Lyric poetry

• Short stories

What is blank verse?

• Rhymed lines of iambic pentameter

• Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

• Rhymed lines of trochaic tetrameter

• Unrhymed lines of trochaic tetrameter

What is iambic pentameter?

• A pattern of rhythm with four unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed syllable

• A pattern of rhythm with five stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable

• A pattern of rhythm with five unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed syllable

• A pattern of rhythm with six unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed syllable

Why did Shakespeare sometimes break the pattern of blank verse?

• To indicate that a character was of higher rank

• To make the dialogue sound more modern

• To vary the rhythm, create dramatic tension, or distinguish low-ranking characters from those of higher rank

• Because he forgot the rules of blank verse

What rhetorical device is used in the phrase "Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine And thrice again, to make up nine." from Macbeth?

• Parallelism

• Antithesis

• Rhetorical Questions

• Repetition