Act 1
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair hover through the fog and the filthy air”
What is an alliteration?
“Art thou, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight”
What is an apostrophe
“My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Anthony’s was by Caesar”
What is allusion?
“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell”
What is an allusion?
In Scene 2, Lady Macbeth states the following: “To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, come come. Give me your hand. Whats done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.”
What is irony?
“Doubtful is stood; as two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art”
What is a simile?
“With Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design move like a ghost”
What is an allusion
“It is concluded: Banquo, thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight.”
What is foreshadowing
When confronting the witches, Macbeth states the following: “Deny me this and an eternal curse shall fall on you!” What literary device is used
What is irony?
“Seyton! - I am sick at heart when I behold- Seyton I say!”
What is an allusion?
While alone, Lady Macbeth states: “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty!”
What is a soliloquy
“Here’s a farmer that hanged himself on th’ expectation of plenty. Come in time! Have napkins enough about you; here you’ll sweat for’t”
What is comic relief?
What poetic device is used in the following quote: “Have I not reason, beldams as you are
Saucy and overbold? How did you dare…”
What is an eye rhyme?
“For the blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me...”
What is alliteration?
“Slumbery agitation”
What is an oxymoron?
“Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself. Hath it slept since?”
What is a personification?
“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.”
What is dramatic irony?
“The valued file distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle…”
What is an alliteration?
“Great tyranny”
What is an oxymoron?
“Despair thy charm; and let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped”
What is foreshadowing?
What literary device is used in the following quote: “Lesser than Macbeth, and greater… Not so happy, yet much happier".
What is a paradox?
“And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature”
What is a simile?
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
What is imagery?
“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnamwood to high Duncan’s hill shall come against him”
What is foreshadowing?
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his upon the stage and then is heard no more”
What is personification?