Lit and Plot Quiz: Macbeth

Shakespearean Tragedy

Hero dies or ends up mentally devasted due to moral weakness or social pressures

dialog

conversation between two or more people

monologue

one sided conversation (no response back)

apostrophe

speaking to someone/something not present

soliloquy

speech where character thinks out loud internal thoughts

asides

character’s private comments on what is happening

breaking the fourth wall

addressing reality despite being in a fictional world, could be addressing the audience, narrator, writer, etc

motif

recurring element with symbolic meaning

pun

play on words that uses the different meanings or sounds of words to create multiple/ambiguity or comedy

direct metaphor

comparison directly stated and straightforward

indirect/implied metaphor

is implied through related diction

mixed metaphor

fails to make logical comparison because of inconsistency

dead metaphor

cliche, used many times, loses meaning or becomes idiom

extended metaphor

retained or extended across multiple lines and examples

conceit

fancy extended metaphor that connects to dissimilar objects to make a surprising analogy (opposite to a dead metaphor)