Act 4&5 Pink Terms

Question 1

[A cavern. In the middle, a boiling caldron. Thunder. Enter the Three Witches.]

Answer 1

Setting

Question 2

(All Witches) “Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble.”

Answer 2

Refrain

Question 3

(Macbeth) “Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warder’s heads; Though palaces an pyramids do slop Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure of nature’s germens tumble all together, even till destruction stiken – answer me to what I ask you.”

Answer 3

Imagery

Question 4

(Second apparition) “Be bloody, bold, and resolute, laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”

Answer 4

Suspense

Question 5

(Third Apparition) “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsiinane Hill shall come against him.”

Answer 5

Foreshadowing

Question 6

(Macbeth) “Tell me, if your art can tell so much, Shall Banquo’s issue ever reign in this kingdom?”

Answer 6

Motivation

Question 7

(Macbeth) “Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down! Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs. And they hair, thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first. A third is like the former. Filthy hags! Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes! What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? Another yet! A seventh! I’ll see no more.”

Answer 7

Plot

Question 8

(Macbeth) “From this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand. And even now, to crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done. The castle of Macduff I will surprise, Seize upon Fife, give to the edge o’ the sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line.”

Answer 8

Characterization

Question 9

(Lady Macduff) “The most diminutive of birds, will fight, her young ones in her nest, against the owl.”

Answer 9

Foreshadowing

Question 10

Lady Macduff: Yes, he is dead HOw wilt thou do for a father?

Son: Nay, how will you do for a husband?

Answer 10

Characterization (Relationship between mother and son)

Question 11

“(Son) Thou liest, thou shag-eared villain!”

Answer 11

Characterization

Question 12

[Exit Lady Macduff, crying “Murder!” Exeunt Murderers, following her]

Answer 12

Pathos

Question 13

(Macduff) “Each new morn New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike Heaven on the face, that it resounds.”

Answer 13

Irony

Question 14

(Malcom) “He hath not touched you yet”

Answer 14

Irony

Question 15

(Malcom) “ Those precious motives, those strong knots of love.”

Answer 15

Metaphor (wife and children in terms of importance to Macduff)

Question 16

(Macduff) “Boundless intemperance in nature is a tyranny. It hath been the untimely emptying of the happy throne, and fall of many kings.”

Answer 16

Motif

Question 17

(Macduff) “Fit to govern! No, not to live. O nation miserable! With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered, when shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, since that the truest issue of thy throne by his won interdiction stands accursed, and does blaspheme his breed?”

Answer 17

Conflict

Question 18

(Malcom) “Unkown to woman, never was forsworn, scarcely have coveted what was mine own, at no time broke my faith, would not betray the Devil to his fellow, and delight no less in truth than life.”

Answer 18

Characterization

Question 19

(Gentlewoman) “ Since His Majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her nightgown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon ‘t read it, afterward seal it, and again return to bed, yet all this while in a most fast sleep”

Answer 19

Motivation

Question 20

(Gentlewoman) “Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually, ‘tis her command.”

Answer 20

Symbolism

Question 21

(Lady Macbeth) “Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One, two– why, then ‘tis time to do ‘t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”

Answer 21

Characterization

Question 22

(Doctor) “Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.”

Answer 22

Motif

Question 23

[The country near Dunsinane. Drum and colors. Enter Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, and Soldiers.]

Answer 23

Atmosphere

Question 24

(Caithness) “ But, for certain he cannot buckle his dis-tempered cause within the belt of rule”{

Answer 24

Figurative Language

Question 25

(Angus) “Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish theif.”

Answer 25

Simile

Question 26

(Caithness) “Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal, and with him pour we, in our country’s purge, each drop of us”

Answer 26

Metaphor

Question 27

(Macbeth) “I have lived long enough. My way of life is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obience, troops of friends, I must not look to have, but, in their stead curses, not loud but deep, mouth honor, breath, which the poor heart would fain deny, and darer not. Seyton!”

Answer 27

Characterization

Question 28

(Macbeth) “I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

Give me my armor.”

Answer 28

Characterization

Question 29

(Macbeth) “Cure her of that.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?”

Answer 29

Irony

Question 30

(Macbeth) “Throw physic to the dogs; I’ll none of it.
Come, put mine armor on. Give me my staff.
Seyton, send out.—Doctor, the thanes fly from me.
Come, sir, dispatch.—If thou couldst, doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.—Pull ’t off, I say.—
What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug,
Would scour these English hence? Hear’st thou of them?”

Answer 30

Characterization

Question 31

(Macbeth) “I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cooled
To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in ’t. I have supped full with horrors.
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot once start me.”

Answer 31

Imagery

Question 32

(Macbeth) “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

Answer 32

Metaphor

Question 33

(Macduff) “That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face!
If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine,
My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still.
I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms
Are hired to bear their staves. Either thou, Macbeth,
Or else my sword with an unbattered edge
I sheathe again undeeded.”

Answer 33

Characterization

Question 34

(Macbeth) “Of all men else I have avoided thee.
But get thee back. My soul is too much charged
With blood of thine already.”

Answer 34

Characterization

Question 35

(Macbeth) “I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet,
And to be baited with the rabble’s curse.
Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damned be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’ “

Answer 35

Characterization

Question 36

(Siward) “Why then, God’s soldier be he!
Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
I would not wish them to a fairer death.
And so, his knell is knolled.”

Answer 36

Characterization

Question 37

MacBeth: out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Answer 37

Irony

Question 38

Macduff: That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face! If thou be’st slain and with no stroke of mine, my wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still. I cannot strike at wretched kerns whose arms are hired to bear their staves. Either thou, Macbeth, or else my sword, with an unbattered edge, I sheathe again undeeded.

Answer 38

Suspense

Question 39

Macbeth: of all men else I have avoided thee. But get the back, my soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.

Answer 39

Pathos

Question 40

Macbeth: I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet, and to be baited with the rabble’s curse. The Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, and thou opposed, being of no woman born, yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, and damned Be him that first cries “Hold, enough!”

Answer 40

Characterization

Question 41

Siward: I would not wish them to a fairer death. And so his knell is knolled.

Answer 41

Symbolism