NAME THAT DEVICE
Name two devices that compare unrelated things to deeper the reader's understanding.
Simile and metaphor
After a long day at work, I was in desperate need of a rest.
REPOSE
Macbeth murders Duncan after the bell tolls at 12:00 midnight.
TRUE.
"That which has made them drunk has made me bold..."
LADY MACBETH
"But I am faint, my wounds cry for help."
-The bleeding captain
Personification. Wounds cannot cry.
What is the literary term used to describe a sentence or phrase that exaggerates something to make a point.
Hyperbole
Burning your country's flag or spitting on someone's grave.
SACRILEGIOUS
After murdering Duncan, Macbeth returns carrying the two bloodied daggers. Banquo tells him that he should put them in the guards' hands, and smear the blood across their faces.
FALSE. Lady Macbeth says this to Macbeth.
"One cried 'God bless us!' and the other 'Amen,' as if they had seen me with these bloodstained hands. Hearing their fear, I could not say 'Amen' when they did say 'God bless us!'"
MACBETH
Name the literary devices used in this sentence:
"Rest is but labor, when not done for you."
Macbeth to King Duncan
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
He shattered his femur, after falling asleep at the wheel.
ANGUISH
Macduff wakes up the rest of the people sleeping in the castle, to inform everyone about the murder.
TRUE
"So weak of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are like pictures. It is the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil."
LADY MACBETH
Name the literary devices used in this sentence.
"Your face, my thane, is like a book where men may read strange matters."
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth
Objectification
Simile
Name the 5 types of imagery (with their proper names) and explain which sense they appeal to.
Visual imagery appeals to the sense of sight.
Auditory imagery appeals to the sense of sound.
Olfactory imagery appeals to the sense of smell.
Tactile imagery appeals to the sense of touch.
Gustatory imagery appeals to the sense of taste.
She put out her foot with the intention of tripping the new student.
MALICE
Macbeth doesn't feel guilty about murdering King Duncan. Instead, he is focused on his future as king.
FALSE. Directly after murdering Duncan, Macbeth tells his wife that he heard a voice saying "Macbeth shall not sleep; Macbeth has murdered sleep." Macbeth feels haunted and paranoid, and says he cannot stand to think about what he has done.
"What will you do? Let's not mix with them. To show unfelt sorrow is a duty that the false man does easily. I'll go to England."
MALCOLM (SON OF DUNCAN).
Name the literary device used in this sentence:
"This guest of summer, the church-nesting martin (bird), does prove by his loving nests here that the air has Heaven's freshness.... the air is delicate."
Banquo, outside Macbeth's castle
Olfactory imagery
Define personification and objectification, and explain how they are different.
Personification is when you apply human characteristics to a non-human, inanimate object.
Objectification is when you compare a human being to an object. The difference between the two is that they are opposites.
Laugh track used on a sit-com (comedy tv show).
CONTRIVED
Malcolm leaves for Ireland, and Donalbain for England.
FALSE. Donalbain leaves for Ireland, and Malcolm goes to England.
"Seventy years I can remember well, during which time I have seen terrible and strange things, but this sorrowful night has made a trifle of them all."
OLD MAN
Name the literary device used in this quote:
"Had but I died an hour before this great loss, I'd have lived a happy life, but from this moment on, there's nothing worth living for..."
-Macbeth, to all