English Lit Vocab

Question 1

Macbeth linguistic devices

Answer 1

Linguistic devices: semantic field, motif, foreshadowing, oxymoron, juxtaposition

Question 2

Words to use:
Mental stability
Turmoil
Deteriorates

Answer 2

Words to use:
Mental stability
Turmoil
Deteriorates

Question 3

How Shakespeare uses characters to make a point

Answer 3

Employs: uses, eg. Shakespeare employs this character to, the theme of… is employed by Shakespeare
Establishes, eg. he establishes a connection
Construct (n): an idea or an imaginary situation, eg. …is used as a construct to
Tool

Question 4

1) Define accentuate
2) Define allude to (something/one)
3) Define conjure

Answer 4

1) Accentuate (v): to emphasize a particular feature of something or to make something more noticeable. eg. His reaction accentuates how great his fears or evil are.
2) Allude to (v): to mention something without talking about it directly, eg. alluding to the idea that.

Question 5

1) Describe Macbeth’s downfall
2) Describe the bad things that Macbeth does

Answer 5

1) Descent into physical and mental decline; his fear, anxieties etc.; graphic decline; paranoia: an extreme and unreasonable feeling that people do not like you, eg. Macbeth’s paranoia is clear when; moral failure/ decline/ peak/ fragility/ infrastructure shaken, destabilised; loses all virtue
2) Heinous crimes; blasphemous acts, blasphemous (adj.): considered offensive to God or religion; his cruel atrocities; Tyrannical (adj.) (Using, showing or relating to the unfair and cruel use of power over people in a country, group, etc.)

Question 6

1) Sentence starters
2) Vocabulary to do with the supernatural

Answer 6

1) Linguistically, structurally, for a contemporary audience
2) The ‘pagan’ ritual of ‘invoking’ evil spirits; supernatural ‘heresies’, (heresy (n): an opinion against the popular opinions); satanic, predestined ordination, sorcery, Christian morality, Malevolent(adj. causing or wanting to cause harm, eg. malevolent witches)