| this noble passion, child of integrity, hath from my soul wiped the black scruples | malcom |
| what hands are here? Ha! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands> NO, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red. | macbeth |
| here’s the smell of blood still: all the perfumes Arabia will not sweeten this little hand | Lady macbeth |
| tryant, show thy face: if thou be’st slain, and with no stroke of mine, my wife and children’s ghost will haunt me still | macduff |
| thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the Weird Women promis’d ; and, I fear, thou play’dst most foully for it. | banquo |
| by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes | Second witch |
| Had he his hurts before?…. Why then, God’s soldier be he! | (old) siward |
| HIs flight was madness : when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors | Lady macduff |
| there’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face: he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust. | Duncan |
| Irony | contrast between what is stated and what is really meant |
| Soliloquy | a speech, usually lengthy, in which a character, alone on stage, express his or her thoughts aloud |
| Aside | lines spoken by a character in an undertone or directly to the audience |
| blank verse | verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Prose | ordinary writing, as distinguished from verse |
| comic relief | humor inserted into the play to break a serious mood |
| climax | the point of greatest intensity, interest, or suspense in a narrative |
| Foreshadowing | he use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what will happen later |
| Tragedy | a pray which presents painful situations, suffering and death; a play which begins in the happiness and ends in death or misery |
| Motif | a recurring feature in (such as a name, image, or phrase) in a work of literature that contributes to the theme |
| Paradox | a statement that reveals a kind truth, although it seems at first to be self-contradictory and untrue |
| Simile | comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| Metaphor | comparison of two unlike things which does not use like or as |
| personification | figure of speech that gives life to inanimate objects |
| parallelism | the state of parallel or of corresponding in some way |
| Allusion | a reference to a person, place, event, work that a writer expects the reader to recognize and respond to |
| couplet | A pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter |
| Allegory | story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning |
| Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which an absent or a dead person, abstract quality or something non-human addressed directly |
| symbol | any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value |
| “this with his stealthy pace, with Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design moves like a ghost.” | Allusion |
| “Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear” | Apostrophe |
| “I will not be afraid of death and bane/ Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane” | couplet |
| “there the grown serpent lies” | Metaphor |
| “o horror! horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!” | parallism |
| “upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my grip” | symbol |
| “fair is foul, and foul is fair” | paradox |
| in the porter’s speech, the “people” entering the gates of Hell actually stand for concepts of greed and ambition. IN this sense, the Porter’s rambling speech acts as a type of story known as | Allegory |
| “approach thou like the rugged Russian bear…” | simile |
| “come, seeling Night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day…” | personification |
| Macduff | fulfills the second prophecy by the witches and kills macbeth |
| porter | provides comic relief and lets lennox and macduff in the castle |
| Banquo | his death was the climax of the narrativehis children will be kings |
| macbeth | -ambition – didn’t really grief when wife dies |
| Malcom | prince of Cumberland |
| lady Macbeth | kills herself |
| macdonwald | Macbeths kills him |
| fleance | son of Banquo and gets away |
| ross | delivers message to other charactersand tells Macbeth he’s the Thane of cawdor |
| Thane of cawdor | traitor and Macbeth takes his place |
Macbeth English test review
January 5, 2020