Act I
What type of literary device is used below?
"If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will
not," (Act I, Scene iii, 59-61)
Metaphor
What type of literary device is used below?
"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me
clutch thee." (Act II, Scene I, 32-34)
Soliloquy
What type of literary device is used below?
"My genius is rebuked, as it is said
Mark Antony's was by Caesar." (Act III, Scene i, 56-57)
Allusion
What type of literary device was used below?
"And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge" (Act IV, Scene iii, 78-79)
Simile
What type of literary device was used below?
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this pretty pace from day to day" (Act V, Scene v, 19-20)
Alliteration
Who is made heir to Duncan's throne? (Act I, Scene iv)
Duncan's son, Malcolm.
What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan? (Act II, Scene i)
He sees a bloody dagger floating in front of him.
What does Macbeth hire three men to do? (Act III, Scene i)
He hires three murders to kill Banquo and his son.
How does Macbeth feel about himself after his meeting with the three witches? (Act IV, Scene i)
After seeing the apparitions, Macbeth hates the witches for causing him so much worry. He also hates himself for listening to them.
What does the sleepwalking scene reveal about Lady Macbeth? (Act V, Scene i)
It reveals that she is so tortured by guilt that her mind dwells constantly and the crimes committed.
Interpret the following quote
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair
Hover through the fog and filthy air" (Act I, Scene i, 10-11)
The witches are introducing the main theme of the play. They explain that things are not as they seem; they can be the opposite of what they seem.
Interpret the following quote:
A dagger of the mind, a false creation /Proceeding from the heat-opressed brain? /I see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which I now draw. /Thou marshal'st me the way that I was /going; /and such an instrument I want to use. (Act II, Scene i, 38-44)
Macbeth has the opportunity to kill Duncan, as the vision of the dagger leads Macbeth to him.
Interpret the following quote:
"As the weird women promised, and I fear /Thou play'dst most foully for't. Yet it was said /It should not stand in thy posterity, (Act III, Scene i, 2-4)
(Banquo's soliloquy) Banquo admits he has suspicion that Macbeth was the murderer of King Duncan.
Interpret the following quote:
"Be bloody, bold, and resolute! Laugh to scorn / The pow'r of man, for none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth" (Act IV, Scene i, 79-80)
No man who is born from a woman can defeat Macbeth.
Interpret the following quote from Lady Macbeth:
"Will these hands ne'er be clean?" (Act V, Scene i, 40)
Lady Macbeth still sees the blood of the murders on her hands. They have taking a toll on her conscious and now she wonders if she will ever be free of sin.