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Figurative Language
Some Vocabulary
Act 1-2
Act 3
Act 3-5
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Identify the excerpt from the play as either a simile or metaphor. “Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act, Of the imperial theme.”
What is simile?
100
evil; wicked
What is pernicious?
100
How Duncan rewards Macbeth for his valor in battle.
What is with the title Thane of Cawdor?
100
How Macbeth convinces the murderers to kill Banquo.
What is that he convinces them that all the wrongs done to them were because of Banquo?
100
Macbeth fears the last vision that the witches show him because...
What is because he realizes that he will have no heir?
200
Identify the excerpt as either a simile or metaphor. “The Prince of Cumberland-that is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o’er leap, For in my way it lies.”
What is a metaphor?
200
To consider
What is muse?
200
When Lady Macbeth learns that Duncan will spend the night at Inverness, she realizes its a time for ...
What is the perfect time to murder Duncan?
200
The motive behind having Banquo murdered.
What is to prevent the prophesy from coming true about Banquo's sons?
200
Macbeth orders the slaughter of Macduff's wife and children because...
What is to punish Macduff for joining forces with Malcolm?
300
Identify the sense that the excerpt MOST appeals to. “The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.”
What is sight?
300
induced to commit an unlawful act
What is suborned?
300
How Macbeth's initial response to the prophecy is different from Lady Macbeth's.
What is Macbeth is clueless as to how he will follow Duncan as king, and Lady Macbeth is ready to get him there asap with any methods possible?
300
What the appearance of Banquo's ghost at the feast means.
What is that the murder of Duncan will be avenged?
300
The gentlewoman will not report what Lady Macbeth is saying in her sleep because...
What is because she doesn't have a witness to verify her testimony?
400
Identify the sense that the excerpt MOST appeals to. “Let us rather HOld fast the mortal sword; and like good men, Bestride our down-fallen birthdom. Each new morn, New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds As if it felt with Scotland, and yelled out Like syllable of dolor.”
What is hear/sound?
400
waits
What is bides?
400
What do the following lines, spoken by macbeth after he's murdered Duncan, suggest about his character? "Still it cried, sleep no more, to all the house. Glamis has murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more."
What is that Macbeth's guilt will always be with him?
400
Macbeth believes he has nothing to fear from Macduff because...
What is because the witches said, "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth?"
400
The audience learns what from Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene?
What is that she shares all of the guilt for what Macbeth has done?
500
How is the following line ironic? “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him.”
What is that Macbeth believes he is immortal because a forest could never uproot itself. The irony is that the soldiers camouflage themselves with branches, so it appears as though the forest is advancing.
500
messengers
What is couriers?
500
What is the significance of Lennox's description of the events of the night before he and Macduff arrive at Inverness? "The night has been unruly. Where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down, and as they say, Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death, And prophesying with accents terrible, Of dire combustion, and confused events, New hatched to th' woeful time."
What is that something has disrupted the order of the world?
500
Macbeth sees this after the three prophesies the second time he visits the witches, which confirms he failed in his plot to kill Banquo.
What is a line of kings with Banquo at the end?
500
The weakness in Macbeth's character that allows for the prophecies to come true and defeat him.
What is that Macbeth interprets the prophecies too literally?