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Macbeth Literary Terms

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A seemingly contradictory statement that proves to be true
a)
Blank Verse
b)
Aside
c)
Motif
d)
Paradox
2.
One character alone on stage sharing his or her thoughts
a)
Aside
b)
Dramatic Irony
c)
Paradox
d)
Soliloquy
3.
A dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience
a)
Aside
b)
Soliloquy
c)
Dramatic Irony
d)
Paradox
4.
Surprising or amusing contradictions
a)
Soliloquy
b)
Motif
c)
Irony
d)
Metaphor
5.
Words and actions of the characters are understood differently by the audience than by the characters because the audience has knowledge that the characters lack
a)
Metaphor
b)
Simile
c)
Theme
d)
Dramatic Irony
6.
Something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol
a)
Personification
b)
Theme
c)
Verbal Scenery
d)
Metaphor
7.

The Popsicle was delicious, with it's sweet scent and fruity flavor.

a)

personfication

b)

imagery

c)

hyperbole

8.

What literary term do we use for visually descriptive and/or figurative language in a text?

a)

imagery

b)

symbolism

c)

foreshadowing

d)

dramatic irony

9.

What literary term do we use for parts of a text that hint at what will happen later in the text?

a)

symbolism

b)

foreshadowing

c)

imagery

d)

allusion

10.

What term do we give to a statement or idea in a text that may seem absurd or contradictory but yet can be true, or at least makes sense, like when witches tell Macbeth that his friend Banquo is "lesser than Macbeth and greater"?

a)

paradox

b)

allusion

c)

pathetic fallacy

d)

motif

11.

What type of irony is being used when the audience/reader knows more than the characters in the story?

a)

situational

b)

verbal

c)

lyrical

d)

dramatic

12.

What literary term do we use for when a character's dialogue is spoken for the audience's benefit but not heard by the other characters on the stage?

a)

paradox

b)

aside

c)

allusion

d)

foreshadowing

13.

What literary term do we use for a speech or long monologue that a character makes in a work of drama only to him or herself (and the audience).

a)

soliloquy

b)

allusion

c)

paradox

d)

symbolism

14.
Mood means...
a)
the author's opinions
b)
how the author feels while writing
c)
the emotional atmosphere the author creates for the reader
d)
what the author chooses to write about
15.

In Macbeth Scene 1 Act 1 is the _____ of the play, it introduces characters and establishes a plot.

a)

Exposition

b)

Beginning

c)

Climax

16.

A character that contrasts with the protagonist, in order to highlight character traits of the protagonist

a)

static character

b)

foil character

c)

protagonist

d)

stock character

e)

dynamic character

17.

Inconsistency in what’s expected and what actually happens

a)

Irony

b)

Situational Irony

c)

Dramatic Irony

d)

Verbal Irony

18.
comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections.
a)
TRAGIC HERO
b)
COMIC RELIEF
c)
ALLITERATION
d)
FOIL
19.
Literary work that shows the downfall of a noble or outstanding person partly through his or her own fault
a)
Romance
b)
Tragedy
c)
Paradox
d)
Soliloquy
20.
A noble or outstanding character who through choice and chance is caught up in a sequence of events that ends in disaster
a)
Tragic Hero
b)
Paradox
c)
Motif
d)
Theme
21.
A mental, emotional, or moral struggle within a character
a)
Comic Relief
b)
Internal Conflict
c)
Personification
d)
External Conflict
22.
A poetic meter composed of 10-syllable lines with a pattern of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables
a)
Motif
b)
Iambic Pentameter
c)
Tragedy
d)
Trochaic Tetrameter
23.
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
a)
Trochaic Tetrameter
b)
Blank Verse
c)
Metaphor
d)
Aside
24.
A struggle between a character and an external force
a)
Internal Conflict
b)
Simile
c)
External Conflict
d)
Soliloquy
25.
The inclusion of a humorous character, scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension
a)
Dramatic Irony
b)
Rising Action
c)
Comic Relief
d)
Aside