Literary Devices
Lets the audience hear a character's inner thoughts without everyone on the stage hearing them
aside.
The 1st apparition
armored head
Watches Lady Macbeth sleepwalk
Doctor
“Now does he feel his title / Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe"
Simile
The play was written for this king
King James
A reference to a person, place, poem, book, event, etc., which is not part of the story.
allusion.
The witches showed this in a mirror to Macbeth
8 Kings behind Banquo's ghost
Asks for his armor
Macbeth
“Make all of our trumpets speak; give them all breath”
Personification
King James is a descendent of this character.
Banquo
When the reader knows more about a character’s situation than the character does
dramatic irony.
Macbeth has these characters murdered in Act 4
Lady Macduff & son(s)
Commands troops to tear down branches and use them as camp
Malcolm
“Why should I play the Roman fool and die / On mine own sword?”
Allusion
Shakespeare performed his plays here
The Globe
A long speech made by a character who is alone and revealing his or her private thoughts and feelings to the audience.
soliloquy
This is Macbeth's character trait that leads to his downfall
ambition
Is killed by Macbeth in battle
Young Siward
"They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, / But bear-like I must fight the course."
Metaphor
This is how the play is referred to because of the curse.
The Scottish Play
A main character who has a flaw, which causes his or her downfall?
tragic hero.
The character who delivers the bad news to Macuff
Ross
Is the king at the end of the play
Malcolm
1.“Well, march we on / To give obedience where ‘tis truly ow’d; / Meet we the med’cine of the sickly weal, / And with him pour we in our country’s purge, / Each drop of us.”
Metaphor
The 2nd apparition referred to this character
Macduff