Macbeth Quotes
Fair is foul, and foul is fair, / Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Who are the Witches?
This relative offers Kambili and Jaja a freer, more nurturing environment than their father’s home.
Who is Aunty Ifeoma?
A poetic device that is an intentional overstatement, a comparison using conscious exaggeration.
What is "hyperbole"?
Trevor's mother's name.
What is Patricia?
The country that Purple Hibiscus takes place in.
What is Nigeria?
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No: this my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red.
Who is Macbeth?
Kambili's mother's first name.
What is Beatrice?
This poetic device describes the turn of thought in an argument, coming from the Italian for “turn.” These often occur at the end of poems, suddenly shifting their meaning or direction. Commonly, they will occur in the last two lines.
What is "volta"?
The name of the township where Trevor spends most his time following his graduation from high school
What is Alexandria?
The nationality of Trevor Noah's biological father.
What is Swiss?
There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face. / He was a gentleman on whom I built / An absolute trust.
Who is King Duncan?
The language used by Papa-Nnukwu and Aunty Ifeoma to maintain cultural traditions that is rarely used by Papa in his household.
What is Igbo?
The particular name for the Jamaican creole dialect
What is Patois?
The tribal identity that Trevor shares with Nelson Mandela
What is Xhosa?
The speaker in the TED talk "The Danger of a Single Story"
Who is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?
But gentle heavens, / Cut short all intermission. Front to front / Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; / Within my sword's length set him. If he scape, / Heaven forgive him too.
Who is Macduff?
The name of Papa's employee -- the editor of the newspaper -- who was killed for speaking out against the military government.
Who was Ade Coker?
The shorthand used to refer to the generation of people who emigrated from the caribbean to England between the years 1948 to 1971 (so named after the first ship that arrived carrying migrants).
What is the Windrush generation?
The number of official languages of South Africa.
What is 11?
The name of the high school where I worked in South Africa
What is Walmer High School?
The gracious Duncan / Was pitied of Macbeth; marry, he was dead. / And the right-valiant Banquo walked too late, / Whom you may say, if't please you, Fleance killed, / for Fleance fled. Men must not walk too late.
Who is Lennox?
The name of the university town where Kambili and Jaja temporarily live with relatives.
What is Nnsuka?
The author of "Sonny's Lettah", a Jamaican-born immigrant living in the United Kingdom, and a pioneer of "dub poetry"
Who is Linton Kwesi Johnson?
Trevor's maternal grandmother's name.
What is Koko?
The English transition of "Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori"
What is "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country"