act 1 - scene 4-6

Question 1

• trusted the old cawdor
• dramatic irony

Answer 1

he was a gentlemen whom i built an absolute trust

Question 2

noble stars
alliteration
- simile
- metaphor

Answer 2

but signs of nobleness like stars shall shine on all deservers

Question 3

• plot against the king
• ambition
• metaphor - plosive
• symbolism - black

Answer 3

stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires

Question 4

lady m.
- ambition
- needs more

Answer 4

art not without ambition but without the illness should attend it

Question 5

stops lady m. from preforming bad acts
- symbol of nature

Answer 5

come to my womens breasts and take my milk for gall you murdering ministers

Question 6

removal of lady m. feminine feelings

Answer 6

unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topful of direst cruety

Question 7

macbeth impatient
- capable of being more

Answer 7

this ignorant present and i feel now the future in the instant

Question 8

lady m. wants hidden secrets
- gunpowder plot
- simile

Answer 8

your hand,your tongue; look like th’innocent flower but be the surpent under’t’