Literary Devices
What is "metaphor"?
The title Duncan gives Macbeth when he hears Macbeth has defeated Macdonwald
What is Thane of Cawdor?
"Fair is foul and foul is fair!"
Who are the witches?
This is the country in which Shakespeare lived.
What is England?
Identify the tenor and vehicle of the following simile
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters.
Tenor: Macebth's face
Vehicle: A book
An explicit comparison, often using "like" or "as"
Macbeth’s desire when he says, "Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires."
What is to kill Duncan?
"Thou wouldst be great, / Art not without ambition, but without / The illness should attend it."
Who is Lady Macbeth?
These figures who appear in Macbeth were targets of mass state-sanctioned violence in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Who are witches?
Identify the tenor and vehicle of the following simile
For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name), /
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, /
Which smoked with bloody execution, / Like Valor’s minion, carved out his passage
Tenor: Macbeth
Vehicle: Valor's minion
What is "dramatic irony"?
The prophecy that the witches give Banquo.
What is, that his children will become kings?
DAILY DOUBLE
"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, /
Shakes so my single state of man."
Who is Macbeth?
This is the country in which Macbeth is set.
What is Scotland?
Identify the tenor and vehicle in the following simile
What seemed corporal melted, / As breath into the wind.
Tenor: the witch's bodies
Vehicle: breath in the wind
A type of figurative speech in which an abstract idea is given human characteristics
What is "personification"?
Duncan names him as successor to the throne.
Who is Malcolm?
"The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, / Which still we thank as love."
Who is Duncan?
He or she was the reigning monarch when Macbeth was first performed
Who is James I?
DAILY DOUBLE: Identify the tenor and vehicle of the following simile:
"Duncan / Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels"
Tenor: virtues
Vehicle: angles
A way of understanding one idea (the target domain) in terms of another, more concrete one (the source domain) (e.g., "up is good")
What is "cognitive metaphor"?
The title of the man executed in Act 1 Scene 4
What is the Thane of Cawdor?
"If I say sooth, I must report they were / As cannons overcharged with double cracks, / So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe."
Who is the Captain?
This is the year Macbeth was first performed.
What is 1606?
Identify the tenors and vehicles in the following simile: (note, your answer should have 7 parts: 3 tenors and 4 vehicles)
Yes, as sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.
Tenors: Macbeth, Banquo, and the Norwegian soldiers
Vehicles: Eagles, lions, sparrows, and hares