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AP Lit Macbeth 1 & 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Freytag's Pyramid | The roller coaster but pyramid |
| Gallowglasses | Elite Military Ireland Class |
| Kern | Light infantry soldiers known for speed and light armor |
| Sennight | Week |
| Aside | Actor talks directly to the audience |
| Motif | A re-occurring idea or element |
| Dramatic Irony | Audience knows more than characters |
| Hither | Towards |
| Gall | Bitterness/Poison |
| Extended Metaphor | Metaphor across multiple lines or paragraphs |
| Imagery | Visually descriptive metaphor |
| Bathos | Rhetorical anticlimax |
| Beelzebub | Christian prince of demons |
| Prose | Breaking line structure |
| Surfeited | Done something too much to not want it anymore |
| Stichomythia | Back and forth lines between characters |
| Incardanine | Bright crimson red |
| Elision | Omission of a syllable when speaking |
| Comic relief | Light entertainment between tragic scenes |
| “Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air” | Act 1, Scene 1, Witches |
| “Like Valour’s minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave, which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, till he unseamed him from the nave th’chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements” | Act 1, Scene 2, Macbeth Kills Macdonald |
| “You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so” | Act 1, Scene 3, Banquo |
| "Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier thou shalt get kings, though thou be none" | Act 1, Scene 3, Witches |
| “And oftentimes, to win us our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths” | Act 1, Scene 3, Banquo warning |
| “But I have spoke with one that saw him die, who did report that very frankly he confessed his reasons, implored your highness’ pardon, and set forth a deep repentance” | Act 1, Scene 4, Malcom talking about Macdonald |
| “Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o'th’milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way” | Act 1, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth after receiving letter from Macbeth [Catch nearest way meaning take quickest route] |
| “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty” | Act 1, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth Soliliquoy |
| “This guest of summer, the temple-haunting martlet, does approve by his loved mansionry that the heaven’s breath smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, butressm nor coign of vantage but this burd hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle” | Act 1, Scene 6, Banquo delivering message that the King arrives and approves |
| “He’s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed; then as his host, who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself” | Act 1, Scene 7, Macbeth questioning self |
| “I have given suck and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done” | Act 1, Scene 7, Lady Macbeth calling out Macbeth |
| “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” | Act 2, Scene 1, Macbeth seeing false visions of knife and calling towards him |
| "“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it”" | Act 2, Scene 2, Lady Macbeth explains why she did not kill the King and left |
| “Retire we to our chamber; a little water clears us of this deed. How easy it is then!" | Act 2, Scene 2, Lady Macbeth explains how to clear concsioucess |
| “Nose painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes: it provokes the desire, but takes away the performance” | Act 2, Scene 3, Porter making joke about alchohol and sexual desires |
| “Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant there’s nothing serious in mortality” | Act 2, Scene 3, Macbeth exaggerating grief |
| “Malcolm and Donalblain, the king’s two sons, are stol’n away and fled, which puts them upon suspicion of the deed” | Act 2, Scene 4, Kings sons given most suspicion and run away |
| Macbeth Act 1, Scene 3 Monologue | Fears of Witches' visions |
| Lady Macbeth Act 1, Scene 5 Soliloquy | Unsex me here scene |
| Macbeth Act 1, Scene 7 Soliloquy | Thinking about fear of breaking 'double trust' of king & ethics |
| Lady Macbeth Act 1, Scene 7 Monologue | Describing strengths and courage, killing child example |
| Macbeth Act 2, Scene 1, Soliloquy | Visions of knife |
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