describe Imagery in Macbeth.
Examine Macbeth and Lady Macbeth after Duncan’s murder. In what ways are they alike and different?
August 5, 2019Describe the “show of eight kings” in Macbeth.
August 5, 2019describe Imagery in Macbeth.
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1) Which passage is an example of imagery?
A woman’s story at a winter’s fire / Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!
Oh, full of scorpions is my mind dear wife!
And though I could / With barefaced power sweep him from my sight…
We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed / In England and in Ireland, not confessing…
2) Which passage is an example of figurative language?
Treason has done his worst; nor steel nor poison / Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing / Can touch him further.
Then stand with us. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake / Thy gory locks at me.
It is concluded Banquo, thy soul’s flight / If it find heaven, must find it out tonight.
3) Which passage is an example of alliteration?
Why, by the verities on thee made good / May they not be my oracles as well / And set me up in hope? But hush, no more.
My genius is rebuked, as it is said / Mark Antony’s was by Caesar.
Acquaint you with the perfect spy o’ th’ time / The moment on ’t; for ’t must be done tonight…
Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave / And beggared yours forever?
4) Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
and put a barren scepter in my grip.
These lines are an example of what feature of literary style.
Imagery
Alliteration
Allusion
Figurative Language
5) Let your Highness
Command upon me, to the which my duties
are with a most indissoluble tie
forever knit.
These lines are an example of what feature of literary style?
Alliteration
Figurative Language
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
