Macbeth

Question 1

unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps

Answer 1

symbolism , foreshadowing , ironic , said by the Sergeant/Captain

Question 2

as sparrows eagles or the hare the lion

Answer 2

animal imagery , irony said by Sergeant/Captain

Question 3

doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe

Answer 3

characterisation , said by Captain/Sergeant

Question 4

if you look into the seeds of time, and day which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me

Answer 4

metaphor , characterisation, said by Banquo

Question 5

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles

Answer 5

Metaphor , foreshadowing , said by Banquo

Question 6

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

Answer 6

metaphor , light/dark imagery , contrast , said by Macbeth

Question 7

unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty

Answer 7

metaphor , hyperbole , said by Lady Macbeth

Question 8

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry Hold Hold

Answer 8

Personification , metaphor , said by Lady Macbeth

Question 9

Look so like the innocent flower But be the serpent under’t

Answer 9

simile , juxtaposition , said by Lady Macbeth

Question 10

we will proceed no further in this business

Answer 10

characterisation , imperative language , said by Macbeth

Question 11

from this time such I account thy love

Answer 11

Irony , said by Lady Macbeth

Question 12

Like the poor cat i’the adage

Answer 12

allusion , said by Lady Macbeth

Question 13

What beast was’t, then. That made you break this enterprise to me?

Answer 13

Imagery , rhetorical , said by Lady Macbeth

Question 14

But wherefore could I pronounce ‘Amen’?

Answer 14

foreshadowing , contrast , said by Macbeth

Question 15

Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep

Answer 15

symbolism , foreshadowing , said by Macbeth

Question 16

Why did you bring these daggers from the place?

Answer 16

symbolism , contrast , said by Lady Macbeth

Question 17

Our separated fortune shall keep us both the safer

Answer 17

foreshadowing , said by Donalbain

Question 18

There’s daggers in men’s smiles

Answer 18

metaphor , symbolism , said by Donalbain

Question 19

A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d

Answer 19

symbolism , Scotland, said by the Old Man

Question 20

To be thus is nothing; But to be safely thus

Answer 20

juxtaposition , irony , said by Macbeth

Question 21

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe

Answer 21

imagery , metaphor , said by Macbeth

Question 22

We have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it

Answer 22

metaphor , symbolism , said by Macbeth

Question 23

O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!

Answer 23

metaphor , characterisation , said by Macbeth

Question 24

There’s husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out

Answer 24

light imagery , tone , said by Banquo

Question 25

There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed, No teeth for the present

Answer 25

metaphor , foreshadowing , juxtaposition , said by Macbeth

Question 26

Never shake thy gory locks at me

Answer 26

symbolism , direct address , imagery , said by Macbeth

Question 27

Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes

Answer 27

repetition , characterisation , said by Lady Macduff

Question 28

For the poor wren, the most diminutive of birds, will fight, her young ones in her nest, against the owl

Answer 28

metaphor , imagery , characterisation , said by Lady Macduff

Question 29

Was my father a traitor, mother?

Answer 29

characterisation , dramatic irony , said by Lady Macduff's son

Question 30

What, all my pretty chickens and their dam, At one fell swoop?

Answer 30

metaphor , imagery , said by Macduff

Question 31

Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief convert to anger

Answer 31

metaphor , imperative , said by Malcolm

Question 32

Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd

Answer 32

irony , parallel , said by Macduff

Question 33

Out, damned spot

Answer 33

symbolism , imagery , said by Lady Macbeth

Question 34

The Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?

Answer 34

rhetorical question , symbolism , said by Lady Macbeth

Question 35

What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed!

Answer 35

repetition , irony , symbolism , said by Lady Macbeth

Question 36

Bring me no more reports

Answer 36

imperative language , symbolism , said by Macbeth

Question 37

cure her of that

Answer 37

imperative language , irony , said by Macbeth

Question 38

Out, out brief candle

Answer 38

metaphor , tone/soliloquy , said by Macbeth

Question 39

My first false speaking was this upon myself: what I am truly, Is thine and my poor country's to command

Answer 39

irony , contrast , said by Malcolm

Question 40

calling home our exiled friends

Answer 40

symbolism , contrast , said by Malcolm

Question 41

this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen

Answer 41

metaphor , simile , said by Malcolm

Question 42

Fair is foul, and foul is fair

Answer 42

paradox , foreshadowing , said by the Witches

Question 43

So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, and yet are on't

Answer 43

Imagery , paradox , said by Banquo

Question 44

or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?

Answer 44

metaphor , personification , said by Banquo