vocabulary
literary devices
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the basics
Mactexting
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A long, slender candle.
What is a TAPER?
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". . . All the / Perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."
What is an allusion (Arabian perfumes)? What is hyperbole (exaggerating the stench of blood)?
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"I bear a charmed life, which must not yield / To one of woman born."
What is Macbeth bragging about his invulnerability due to the witches' prophecy.
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How does the prophecy regarding Birnam wood come true?
What is the soldiers cut down and carry the trees to disguise their numbers.
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AFA, GIGO. LM 2M2H for me. Needs Jesus!
What is the doctor saying, "More needs she the divine than the physician."
200
Announcers; those who come before to announce something.
What is HARBINGERS?
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". . . Now does he feel his title / Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief?"
What is simile (comparing Macbeth to a dwarf and the title of king to a robe)? What is imagery?
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"I have almost forgot the taste of fears, / . . . / I have supped full with horrors."
What is Macbeth speaking about how he has become desensitized due to his villainous deeds. Even a shriek in the night does not startle him.
200
How does the prophecy regarding none of woman born come true?
What is Macduff was "from [his] mother's womb untimely ripped"!!!!
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The Duff was a C baby, yo!
What is Macduff saying, "Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped!"
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Diseased, sickly.
What is DISTEMPERED?
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"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, / Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain?"
What is metaphor (comparing the memory to a garden, a bad memory to a weed, and the brain to a book)?
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"So thanks to all at once and to each one, / Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone."
What is Malcolm speaking to all assembled. He is finally KING!
300
Two things to which Macbeth compares life in his most famous soliloquy?
What are a candle, an actor on a stage, a tale told by an idiot?
300
IDC. Liv. shed enuf blud of ur peeps.
What is Macbeth saying, "Get thee back! My soul is too much charged / With blood of thine already."
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A cause of pain and/or distress.
What is BANE?
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"He's worth more sorrow / And that I'll spend for him."
What is metaphor (comparing sorrow to money).
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"Out, out, damned spot!"
What is Lady Macbeth hallucinating. She has gone mad due to her conscience and imagines blood on her hands.
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What is one of the first things Malcolm plans on doing now that he has become king?
What is bringing back everyone who has been exiled under Macbeth's rule, punishing those who have stayed loyal to Macbeth, and repay the king of England and all who helped overthrow Macbeth?
400
LM is . . . STS . . . FFFFT!
What is Seyton saying, "The Queen, my lord, is dead."
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Invulnerable, unable to be destroyed.
What is INTRENCHANT?
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"Make all our trumpets speak, give them all breath, / Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death." GIVE TWO FOR THIS ONE!
What is personification (giving human characteristics to the trumpets)? What is foreshadowing (the death of Macbeth)?
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"Why should I play the Roman fool and die / On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes / Do better upon them."
What is Macbeth refusing to give up. He realizes he will probably die, but he will go down fighting. He will not, as the Roman generals did, kill himself. He will kill as many people as he can before he dies.
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Why is Macduff glad to see that Macbeth is still alive in scene 7?
What is because he wants to be the one to kill him or the ghosts of his wife and children will haunt him forever?
500
Q4U. were they on the front? "w".
What is Siward saying, "Had he his hurts before?"
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