Macbeth Terms and Concepts
Across
- 3. full, sensual
- 5. a big pot for cooking
- 7. the king’s role and the way he rules
- 9. 5 beats per line of poetry with the emphasis on the second syllable
- 11. herald
- 12. calling for a favor or power to a force or thing outside of oneself
- 13. allusion or reference to the Roman god Neptune
- 14. trivial
- 16. gift (Greek origin)
- 17. band of brothers
- 18. expertise demonstrated with an easy grace that defines non-chalance.
- 20. babble
- 22. scolded
- 23. Tragedy a form of literature imitated by Renaissance writers
- 24. a literary element that uses exaggeration to dramatize an idea, exaggeration
- 26. pride
- 27. a fault in character, in Greek tragedies this is often “hubris” or pride
Down
- 1. lies
- 2. unrhymed iambic pentameter
- 4. merciless, inhumane
- 6. repeatedly battered by storms
- 7. “rebirth”
- 8. a person who is above other in talent, stature, rank or wealth
- 10. a time of great faith and colloquial artistic expression
- 14. cleanse through catharsis
- 15. turn something red
- 19. a person of high estate, who suffers a reversal of fortune due to his or her tragic flaw and resulting crime.
- 21. two contradictory ideas
- 25. two lines of poetry that rhyme