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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

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

• Prose dramas

• Verse dramas

• Lyric poetry

• Short stories

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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What is blank verse?

• Rhymed lines of iambic pentameter

• Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

• Rhymed lines of trochaic tetrameter

• Unrhymed lines of trochaic tetrameter

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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

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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

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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

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