Macbeth - Devices

A long speech delivered by one character to another

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Proclamation

• Dialogue

A long speech delivered by a character to themselves, revealing their inner thoughts to the audience

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Dialogue

• Proclamation

"So foul and fair a day I have not seen" is an example of...

• Juxtaposition

• Contrast

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

When the audience knows something a character does not

• Verbal irony

• Dramatic irony

• Situational irony

• Tragic irony

When Macbeth briefly talks to himself during the witches' prophecies, this is called...

• Comic relief

• Dramatic irony

• An aside

• A monologue

Which character is used as comic relief, to give the audience a respite from the tension of the previous scene?

• Banquo

• The porter

• Lennox

• Ross

Which of these is NOT a purpose of the stage directions in Shakespeare's plays?

• To tell actors when to enter the scene

• To tell actors when to handle a key prop

• To tell actors how to say the lines

• To tell actors when to exit the scene

Which of these is NOT a motif in the play so far?

• Blood

• Sleep

• Owls

• Nature behaving oddly

"Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters" is an example of...

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Juxtaposition

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hands?" is an example of...

• Antithesis

• Hyperbole

• Foreshadowing

• Simile