Literary Devices Examples
"[It] Moves like a ghost." Is a form of what literary device? (A2S1 line 69)
Simile
Define the literary term: simile
A comparison, using the words "like" or "as"
What is one of the most famous speeches in Macbeth, that Macbeth gives in Act 2 Scene 1 called?
The Dagger Speech
Who actually murdered King Duncan?
Macbeth
What is the name of Macbeth's castle?
Inverness
"I have not heard the clock. / And she goes down at twelve." Is a form of what literary device? (A2S1 lines 2-3)
Personification
Define the literary term: personification
Giving human characteristics to non human things
What is the object that Macbeth sees in front of him?
A dagger
Why did Lady Macbeth say she couldn't murder Duncan herself?
Because Duncan looked like her father
What does the term, "Porter" mean?
Gatekeeper
"The bell invites me." Is a form of what literary device? (A2S1 line 75)
Personification
Define the literary term: allusion
A term used to reference something from another text, novel, or historical event/person
What does the dagger that Macbeth sees symbolize?
The future death of King Duncan / Macbeth murdering King Duncan.
Who brought the daggers back to Duncan's room and why?
Lady Macbeth, because Macbeth could not go back into Duncan's room and look at what he'd done.
Where is Macbeth going to be crowned King of Scotland?
Scone
"O gentle lady, / 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. / The repetition in a woman's ear / Would murder as it fell." Is a form of what literary device? (A2S3 lines 96-99)
Dramatic Irony
Define the literary term: dramatic irony
When the audience/reader know something that some characters in the play do not know
Macbeth hears a bell at the end of his speech, when he makes his final decision about Duncan. What is that type of bell called and why?
A knell, and it is a death bell, typically rung at a funeral of when a death occurs.
What word could Macbeth not say and why?
What is the name of Macduff's castle?
Fife
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?" Is a form of what literary device? (A2S2 lines 78-79)
Allusion
Define the literary term: soliloquy
Macbeth says, "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" What is Macbeth questioning here? (A2S1 lines 47-51)
Macbeth is questioning whether (#1) if the dagger is as real to the touch as it is to sight, and (#2) if it is a hallucination caused by his insane/feverish mind.
What TWO phrase did Macbeth hear from voices after he left Duncan's chamber?
"Macbeth hath murdered sleep!" and "Sleep no more!"
Where is Duncan going to be buried?
Colmekill