Shakespear Macbeth

Question 0

Foot

Answer 0

Unit of measuring meter used in beats

Question 1

Meter

Answer 1

The organisation of rhythm in both music and poetry

Question 2

Iamb

Answer 2

_ / short long

Question 3

Troche

Answer 3

/ _ long short

Question 4

Spondee

Answer 4

/ / long long

Question 5

Anapest

Answer 5

_ _ / short short long

Question 6

Dactyl

Answer 6

/ _ _ long short short

Question 7

End stopped lines

Answer 7

Line of poetry that has punctuation at the end

Question 8

Enjambment

Answer 8

The lines do not stop at the end

Question 9

Caesura

Answer 9

Pause or break in the middle of the line

Question 10

Blank verse

Answer 10

Poetry that doesn’t rhyme, usually in iambic pentameter

Question 11

Heroic couplet

Answer 11

Two lines that rhyme

Question 12

Masculine ending

Answer 12

That last syllable of line is accented/stressed/strong

Question 13

Feminine ending

Answer 13

Last syllable of line is unaccented/unstressed/weak

Question 14

Dimeter

Answer 14

Two feet per line

Question 15

Trimeter

Answer 15

Three feet per line

Question 16

Tetrameter

Answer 16

Four feet per line

Question 17

Pentameter

Answer 17

Five feet per line

Question 18

Hexameter

Answer 18

Six feet per line

Question 19

Where did Shakespeare grow up?

Answer 19

Stratford-upon-Avon

Question 20

What was he a member of?

Answer 20

Lord Chamberlain’s Men

Question 21

What did Shakespeare father want to do for his family?

Answer 21

Raise to the gentry status

Question 22

Who was Shakespeare married to?

Answer 22

Anne Hathaway

Question 23

What was the name of the house he bought in Stratford?

Answer 23

New house

Question 24

He built what theatre?

Answer 24

Globe theatre

Question 25

How many lines does a sonnet have?

Answer 25

Fourteen Brocken into three groups of four and two rhyming lines

Question 26

Major conflict in Macbeth

Answer 26

The struggle within Macbeth between ambition, right and wrong; the struggle between the murderous evil represented by Macbeth and lady Macbeth

Question 27

Rising Action

Answer 27

Macbeth and Banquo's encounter with the witches initiates both conflicts, Lady Macbeth's speeches goad Macbeth into murdering Duncan and getting the crown

Question 28

Climax

Answer 28

Macbeth's murder of Duncan in Act 2 represents the point of no return, after which Macbeth is forced to continue butchering his subjects to avoid the consequences of his crime

Question 29

Falling Action

Answer 29

Macbeth's increasingly brutal murders; Macbeth's second meeting with the witches; Macbeth's final confrontation with Macduff and the opposing armies

Question 30

Themes

Answer 30

Unchecked ambition, cruelty and masculinity, kingship and tyranny, gender reversal, appearance verses reality

Question 31

Motifs

Answer 31

The supernatural, hallucinations, violence, prophecy

Question 32

Symbols

Answer 32

Blood; weather