Macbeth Literary Devices Practice

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." Who is speaking in this line? What is the context?

• Banquo says this to Macbeth after he kills Macdonwald.

• The three witches say this before meeting with Macbeth to give him the prophecy.

• Macbeth says this after he receives the prophecy from the three witches.

• King Duncan says this to Macbeth when he awards him with the Thane of Cawdor title.

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." This sentence is an example of...

• simile and parallelism

• alliteration and parallelism

• metaphor and parallelism

• personification and parallelism

Alliteration is defined as...

• Assigns human qualities and attributes to objects or other non-human things

• a character speaks to him or herself, relating his or her innermost thoughts and feelings as if thinking aloud

• Two or more elements of a sentence (or series of sentences) have the same grammatical structure

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Parallelism is defined as..

• Assigns human qualities and attributes to objects or other non-human things

• a character speaks to him or herself, relating his or her innermost thoughts and feelings as if thinking aloud

• Two or more elements of a sentence (or series of sentences) have the same grammatical structure

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

“Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires.” Macbeth says this after _____ is named Prince of Cumberland by Duncan.

• Donalbain

• Banquo

• Macduff

• Malcolm

“Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires.” This sentence is an example of...

• ethos

• imagery

• parallelism

• personification

Personification is defined as..

• Assigns human qualities and attributes to objects or other non-human things

• a character speaks to him or herself, relating his or her innermost thoughts and feelings as if thinking aloud

• Two or more elements of a sentence (or series of sentences) have the same grammatical structure

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

In Acts I and II, we heard the innermost thoughts of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth through a speech known as...

• iambic pentameter

• monologue

• soliloquy

• allusion

“By his loved mansionry, that the heaven’s breath smells wooingly here.” This sentence is an example of...

• rhetorical question

• pathos

• alliteration

• personification

Lady Macbeth says, "Look like the innocent flower,/But be the serpent under it" to Macbeth. This sentence is an example of...

• metaphor

• simile

• foreshadowing

• imagery