vocabulary
literary devices
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the basics
Mactexting
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To make larger in size, number, or strength.
What is AUGMENT?
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BANQUO to FLEANCE: Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven; / Their candles are all out.
Husbandry in heaven = personification, saying that heaven is being economical. Their candles are all out = metaphor, comparing the stars to candles.
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So I lose none / In seeking to augment it but still keep / My bosom franchised an allegiance clear, / I shall be counseled.
Who is Banquo speaking to Macbeth telling him he will not do anything to jeopardize his honor in an attempt to increase it. He will remain loyal to the king. He is being sincere.
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This is why Shakespeare did not show the murder scene to the audience.
What is because it would have been too traumatic for the audience to have to witness regicide even if it were fictional.
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What is Macbeth asking Banquo if he would be willing to go along with his plan saying that it would bring him honor.
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Existing, occurring, or present in great numbers.
What is MULTITUDINOUS?
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MACBETH (in soliloquy): Thou sure and firm-set earth, / Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear / Thy very stones prate of my whereabout
What is personification. Giving the earth the human characteristic of hearing and the stones the ability to talk (prate).
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I think not of them. / Yet when we can entreat an hour to serve, / We would spend it in some words upon that business, / If you would grant the time.
Who is Macbeth speaking to Banquo. He tells him that he has not thought about the witches, but he then immediately contradicts himself and says that he has a proposal for Banquo regarding the witches' prophecies and would like to speak to him about it. He is not being sincere.
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Because he resembled her father.
What is why Lady Macbeth didn't kill Duncan herself?
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:-<> DBEYS. FRT is this a dagr or wat?
What is Macbeth speaking to himself during his first hallucination. He sees a dagger leading him to Duncan's chamber.
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Indulgence of sexual desire.
What is LECHERY?
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MACBETH to HIMSELF: Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red.
Allusion = Neptune god of the sea Symbolism = blood means guilt
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To Ireland I. Our separated fortune / Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are, / There's daggers in men's smiles; the near in blood, / The nearer bloody.
Who is Donalbain speaking to Malcolm. He says they should leave immediately because one of the men there is not being sincere in his grief but is actually the murderer. He believes that he and his brother are in danger because they are the king's sons. Both flee making them look guilty.
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Amen.
What is what Macbeth could not utter after he killed the king?
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4COL, AYSOS? put 'em back!
What is Lady Macbeth speaking to her husband, saying: Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there. Go carry them and smear The sleepy grooms with blood.
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Capable of being touched or felt.
What is PALPABLE?
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MACBETH to LADY MACBETH: Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in life's feast.
metaphor = comparing sleep to . . .
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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.
Who is Macduff speaking to Lady Macbeth. He says she is too delicate to hear the brutal news of Duncan's murder because she is just a weak woman. No one suspects her and Macbeth yet of the murder.
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An example of dramatic irony from Act II.
What is Macbeth saying "'Twas a rough night." What is Macduff's answer to Lady Macbeth when she asks what is the matter? What is the Porter imagining himself at hell's gate?
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What is Lady Macbeth talking to her husband saying that it is easy to wash the blood from her hands and clear her of any guilt.
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Feeble, faltering, or irresolute.
What is INFIRM?
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ROSS to OLD MAN: Thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man's act, / Threaten his bloody stage. By the clock 'tis day, / And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp. / Is't night's predominance or the day's shame, / That darkness does the face of earth entomb / When living light should kiss it?
METAPHORS: man compared to actor, the earth to a stage, the sun to a traveling lamp, darkness to a tomb. PERSONIFICATION: night given the ability to strangle, the day feeling shame, light kissing the earth.
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Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious, / Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. / The expedition of my violent love / Outrun the pauser, reason.
Who is Macbeth talking to those assembled. He is explaining that he killed the servants because he loved the king so much he couldn't refrain. He is less than sincere.
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An example of symbolism besides the blood symbolizing guilt.
What is the mousing owl (Macbeth) killing the towering falcon (Duncan).
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What is Malcolm talking to Donalbain saying they should flee before they are next in line . . . . for MMMURRRDERRR!