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Shakespear Macbeth Flashcards

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Foot

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Unit of measuring meter used in beats

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Meter

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The organisation of rhythm in both music and poetry

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Iamb

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_ / short long

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Troche

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/ _ long short

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Spondee

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/ / long long

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Anapest

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_ _ / short short long

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Dactyl

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/ _ _ long short short

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End stopped lines

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Line of poetry that has punctuation at the end

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Enjambment

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The lines do not stop at the end

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Caesura

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Pause or break in the middle of the line

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Blank verse

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Poetry that doesn’t rhyme, usually in iambic pentameter

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Heroic couplet

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Two lines that rhyme

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Masculine ending

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That last syllable of line is accented/stressed/strong

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Feminine ending

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Last syllable of line is unaccented/unstressed/weak

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Dimeter

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Two feet per line

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Trimeter

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Three feet per line

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Tetrameter

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Four feet per line

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Pentameter

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Five feet per line

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Hexameter

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Six feet per line

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Where did Shakespeare grow up?

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Stratford-upon-Avon

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What was he a member of?

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Lord Chamberlain’s Men

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What did Shakespeare father want to do for his family?

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Raise to the gentry status

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Who was Shakespeare married to?

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Anne Hathaway

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

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New house

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He built what theatre?

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Globe theatre

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How many lines does a sonnet have?

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Fourteen Brocken into three groups of four and two rhyming lines

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Major conflict in Macbeth

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

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Rising Action

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

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Climax

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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

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Falling Action

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

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Themes

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

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Motifs

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The supernatural, hallucinations, violence, prophecy

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Symbols

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Blood; weather

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