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Macbeth Act II-III
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allusion | A reference to a great piece of literature |
| Aside | Words spoken in an undertone for the audience to hear but not a certain character |
| Couplet | pair of rhymed lines |
| Foil | two characters' personalities are completely opposite to accentuate each other |
| Simile | comparing two things using like or as |
| Metaphor | a comparison between two things that are dissimilar in which one is described in terms of another (NOT using like or as) |
| soliloquy | a character is alone on stage expressing his/her thoughts or feelings; it is usually longer than an aside and not directed at the audience |
| Monologue | a long uninterrupted speech in the presence of the other characters |
| personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
| sonnet | a 14 line poem with the specific rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg |
| Iambic pentameter | a line made up of 5 pairs of short/long or unstressed/stressed, syllables (one line with 10 syllables total) |
| comic relief | a humorous scene, incident, or speech that relieves the overall emotional intensity |
| tragedy | The central figure meets with disaster or grave misfortune. In most tragedies, the tragic hero's downfall is usually the result of fate's intervention, or a character flaw or tragic flaw |
| motif | repeating image, element or theme |
| Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows information that the characters do not. |
| Rhyme Scheme | the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. |
| Blank Verse | Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. |
| Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form any written work that follows a basic grammatical structure |
| Who says this: “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” | Macbeth - he hallucinates seeing a dagger when he is on his way to kill Duncan! |
| Who says this: “Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell” | Macbeth - when his wife rings the bell after she gets the guards drunk |
| Who says this: “Macbeth does murder sleep” | Macbeth - he can't sleep after he murders Duncan - personification |
| Who says this: “Retire we to our chamber. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then!” | Lady Macbeth - she thinks water will wash the blood off their hands |
| Who says this and which literary device? “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/Clean from my hand?” | Macbeth - Neptune is the god of the sea = allusion |
| Who says this: “Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time” | Macbeth - acting sad after everyone finds out Duncan was killed |
| Who says this: “There’s daggers in men’s smiles” | Donalbain - Duncan's son |
| “By the clock ’tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.” | Ross |
| “’Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that’s done.” | Old man |
| “And Duncan’s horses… turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, / Contending ’gainst obedience.” | Ross |
| “To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus.” | Macbeth - to be king doesn't mean anything if I'm not safe |
| “Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, / As the weird women promised.” | Banquo |
| “Naught’s had, all’s spent” | Lady Macbeth - they've risked everything to be king and queen but still aren't happy |
| “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck.” | Macbeth - doesn't tell his wife his plans |
| “O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!” | Macbeth - he's losing it |
| “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.” | Lady Macbeth |
| “O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!” | Banquo - while he is getting murdered - tells his son to run away |
| “Who did strike out the light?” | Murderer |
| “The worm that’s fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed, No teeth for the present” | Macbeth - referring to Fleance - he's a baby snake who is still alive and could become dangerous (venom - poison) to him since the witches said Banquo's sons will be king |
| “Thou canst not say I did it; never shake / Thy gory locks at me!” | Macbeth when he's talking to Banquo's ghost |
| “I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er” | Macbeth - in too deep with the murders - hard to go back to being a good person |
| “And you all know security / Is mortals’ chiefest enemy.” | Hecate - goddess of witchcraft - over-confidence is a man's worst enemy |
| “He shall spurn fate, scorn death…” | Hecate |
| “The gracious Duncan / Was pitied of Macbeth: marry, he was dead.” | Lennox |
| “How it did grieve Macbeth!” | Lennox |
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KRaethz
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