Macbeth Basics
This is the country where Macbeth takes place.
What is Scotland?
Duncan’s attitude toward Macbeth in Act I.
What is respectful?
What the mother’s refusal represents in Borders.
What is pride in Indigenous identity?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is simile?
The point of view used in “Pride is a good thing to have…”
What is first person?
Macbeth begins the play with this title.
What is Thane of Glamis?
Lady Macbeth’s plan to kill Duncan.
What is drugging the guards and killing Duncan?
The central struggle in Brooms for Sale.
What is perseverance in hardship?
Repeating consonant sounds within or at the ends of words.
What is consonance?
Why Poe’s The Raven line is consonance, not alliteration.
What is repeated consonant sounds within/at the ends of words?
This character encourages Macbeth to kill King Duncan.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Macbeth’s reaction to seeing the bloody dagger.
What is feeling encouraged to murder Duncan?
What the Snow Walker symbolizes.
What is death and survival in nature?
Putting opposites side by side for contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
The literary device that places contrasting ideas side by side to highlight their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
This character ultimately kills Macbeth.
Who is Macduff?
A recurring image throughout the play.
What is blood / daggers / light and dark?
The captain’s moral dilemma in Gentleman, Your Verdict.
What is individual sacrifice vs. collective survival?
Replacing an idea with something closely related.
What is metonymy?
The key difference between metonymy and synecdoche.
What is metonymy = related idea, synecdoche = part for whole?
What the Weird Sisters predict about Banquo’s future.
What is his descendants will be kings?
Which prophecy from the Weird Sisters most directly helps convince Macbeth that he is protected from defeat?
What is that no man of woman born can harm Macbeth?
The main theme of the short story War.
What is the emotional damage war causes families?
Using a part to represent the whole (comparison device).
What is synecdoche?
Identify the poetic device: “Paramedic run over by emergency vehicle.”
What is irony?