Figurative Language
Lady Macbeth: All that impedes thee from the golden round
Honors: Metonymy
On Level: Metaphor
Ambition!
Hamartia
is beheaded in Act I
Macdonwald
Blood on Hands
What is symbolism of guilt
The satisfaction the audience feels at the end of the play.
What is catharsis?
Ross: Not let your ears despise my tongue forever.
Honors: What is synecdoche?
OnLevel: What is personification?
Macbeth is an amazing warrior who fights tirelessly for king and country. He's the most powerful and fierce thane in his country.
Arete
Dies with 20 gashes on his head.
Who is Banquo
Bloody Dagger
Symbolism of murder
The type of irony that dominates the play most?
What is dramatic irony.
Malcolm: [Scotland] weeps, [Scotland] bleeds, and each new day new gashes added to her wounds.
What is personification?
Quality shown when he kills Duncan, guards, Banquo, Macduff's family. Loves power so much, he forgets to share it.
Ate
Dies by her own "violent hands"
Who is Lady Macbeth?
"Murdered sleep" and Sleepwalking
What is symbolism of guilt
3 Devices in Macbeth: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
All: metaphor, personification, alliteration, repetition
Honors additions: Anagnorisis, polysyndeton,
Malcolm: And my more-having would be as a sauce to make me hunger more.
What is simile?
Thanes hate him, his wife dies, he dies.
Nemesis
Ground shaking, horses eating each other, owl killing a falcon.
What is a disturbance in the great chain of being?
Raven croaking, owl screeching
Omens of death
What is
Flower: Malcolm; Weeds: Macbeth
Macbeth: Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage... There are two...
What are metaphor & personfication?
Tragic figure quality shown in the fact that Macbeth doesn't run from battle or wear armor when he goes off to the battlefield.
Ate
The two characters' beheadings are symbolic of this.
What is treachery?
What significance does the doctor have?
What is He sees and hears the confession of Lady Macbeth while he is trying to diagnose her condition.
The three apparitions that comes out of the cauldron to speak their tricky prophecy to Macbeth.
1. Armed head
2. Bloody infant
3. Crowned child holding a tree brance