Name_____________________

The following study guide can be turned in for up to four points added onto your exam score. This study guide is
due on February 16th.

Look up the following passages from Macbeth. Identify the speaker in each passage, and then pick out a key
phrase that will help you remember the passage.

Act 1, Scene 1, lines 12-13

Speaker:
Key Phrase:
Act 1, Scene 5, lines 38-53
Speaker:
Key Phrase:
Act 2, Scene 1, lines 33-51
Speaker:
Key Phrase:
Act 3, Scene 1, lines 1-10
Speaker:
Key Phrase:
Act 3, Scene 1, starting line 49-74
Speaker:
Key Phrase:
Act 5, Scene 5, lines 16-27
Speaker:
Key Phrase:
Act 5, Scene 8, lines 13-16
Speaker:
Key Phrase:

In the exam, you will need to know the definitions of the following terms. On the study guide, I have it
listed as a matching exercise. It will be multiple choice, not matching, on the test.

1. Peripeteia
a. This moment defines the start of a
2. Desis (Rising Action) cause-and-effect chain. It is a significant
incident or happening, which deviates
3. Climax from the norm. From this point forward,
things will never be the same for the
4. Incentive moment/beginning protagonist.

5. Denouement (falling action) b. More rapid than the rising action, this is
a chain of events leading to the eventual
resolution.

c. The rising action of a play is comprised

of several related incidents, each of
which serves to heighten the tension of
 the play. It is a process of the
protagonist encountering new obstacles e. “reversal of intention,” when a character
and continually challenging, fighting, produces an effect opposite to that
overcoming, etc. which he intended.

d. This is when the tension in the play is at

its highest. It is caused by earlier
incidents and it causes the incidents that
follow.

Label the numbered boxes on the diagram of Freytag’s Triangle found below.

Apply Freytag’s Triangle to Macbeth

Incentive Moment:

2 Elements of Desis:

Climax

Denoument:

Resolution:

Literary terms and Aristotle’s Poetics

What are Aristotle's six elements of tragedy? According to Aristotle, which is the most important in
theatre?

Be aware of the following terms:

Protagonist:

Foil:

Know the difference between the following character types:

Dynamic:

Static:

Round:

Flat:

What is the difference between a linear and non-linear plot?

What is a tragedy?

Define the following terms: Recognition, Reversal, Hamartia, Hubris

What roles do pity, fear, and catharsis play in Aristotelian drama.

What does catharsis mean?

Fahrenheit 451
What are the 12 stages of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey?

Apply these parts of the Hero’s Journey to Fahrenheit 451:

The Ordinary World:

Meeting the Mentor:

The Ordeal:

Return with the Elixir:

For the exam, be aware of the major plot points and characters from Fahrenheit 451. You should
also be able to understand major symbols in the book, such as those of the “Hearth and the
Salamander” and “The Sieve and the Sand.”