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24 Cards in this Set
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Shakespearean Plot Diagram
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Act I: Exposition, Exciting Force, Rising Action
Act II: Rising Action Act III: Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action Act IV: Falling Action Act V: Falling Action, Catastrophe |
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Explain: "Exposition"
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Describes the mood and conditions existing at the beginning of the play
Time and place Main character and their positions, circumstances, and relationships to one another |
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Explain: "Exciting Force"
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The complication or initial action
What starts the Rising Action |
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Explain: "Rising Action"
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All the actions that lead up to the climax
There is more than one act involved in the R.A. |
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Explain: "Climax"
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The turning point
The hero moves to his/her end |
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Explain: "Falling Action"
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Events from climax to the hero's death...
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Explain: "Catastrophe"
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The consequences (death) of the hero's previous actions
Simple and brief |
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Shakespeare was considered to be...
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... the greatest dramatist and finest poet the world has ever known
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No other writers plays and poetry have been...
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... produced so many times or translated into so many languages
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Shakespeare uses a...
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... wide range of characters from noblemen to drunkards to fools to kings
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In his characters are...
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... our personality traits and flaws.
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The characters are...
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... realistic.
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Shakespeare was born in (1)______________ in the country of (2)______________ sometime in (3)______________
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1. Stratford-on-Avon
2. England 3. early 1564 |
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Shakespeare studied...
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... Latin, logic, and rhetoric, and played sports.
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At age (1)______________, he married (2)______________ (she was (3)______________ )
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1. 18
2. Anne Hathaway 3. 26 |
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Shakespeare's children:
(1)______________, born in (2)______________ (3)______________ and (4)______________, born in (5)______________ |
1. Susanna
2. 1583 3. Hamnet 4. Judith 5. 1585 |
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Shakespeare's child (1)______________ died of (2)______________ in the year of(3)______________
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1. Hamnet
2. The Plague 3. 1596 |
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Shakespeare began writing (1)______________ in the (2)______________ because (3)______________. This was (4)______________.
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1. Poetry
2. Early 1590's 3. The Plague kept the theatres closed 4. Published and became popular with the masses |
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From (1)______________ to (2)______________, Shakespeare belonged to a (3)______________ called (4)______________, later to be called (5)______________
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1. 1594
2. his death 3. theatre group 4. Lord Chamberlain's Men 5. King's Company |
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In (1)______________, he performed for (2)______________
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1. 1594
2. Queen Elizabeth |
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Shakespeare owned (1)______________ and (2)______________ - (3)______________ (located in (4)______________)
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1. Property
2. Business 3. New House 1597 4. Stratford |
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(1)_______ - (2)________ Tragedies: (3)______________, (4)______________, (5)______________, (6)______________, (7)______________
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1. 1594
2. 1608 3. Macbeth 4. Hamlet 5. Othello 6. King Lear 7. Romeo and Juliet |
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Shakespeare died on (1)______________, and was buried (2)______________ in (3)______________
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1. April 23, 1616
2. Before the altar 3. Stratford Church |
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Themes and Images in Macbeth
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- Darkness: Real and Imagined
- The Unnatural - Blood - Animals and Birds - Disease and Sickness: Mental and Physical - Weather |
