Macbeth - Language Techniques Flashcards
1.1 - Pathetic Fallacy
Language
‘When shall we three meet again,
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?’
1.1 - Paradox
Structure
‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’
Paradox meaning: contradiction; opposites
1.2 - Adjective
Language
‘O valiant cousin! O worthy gentleman’
1.2 - Simile
Language
‘As sparrows eagles, or hare the lion
As cannons overcharged with double cracks’
1.3 - Questions
Structure
What are you?
Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear / Things that do sound so fair?
But how of Cawdor?
Say from when do you owe this strange intelligence?
1.3 - Iambic tetrameter
Structure
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none: so all hail, Macbeth and Banquo
MEANING: Four feet for a total of eight syllables - ta TUM ta TUM ta TUM ta TUM
1.3 - Metaphor
Language
‘Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?’
1.3 - Aside
Dramatic device
‘My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, / Shakes so my single state of man that function / Is smother’d in surmise, and nothing is / But what is not.
1.4 - Contrast
Structure
‘stars, shall shine’
‘stars, hide your fires.
1.4 - Rhyming couplets
Structure
‘For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; / let not light see my black and deep desires’
1.5 - Soliloquy
Dramatic device
‘Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be / What thou art promised: yet i do fear thy nature; / It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness ….’
1.6 - Dramatic irony
Dramatic device
‘This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air / Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself / Unto our gentle senses
1.7 - Euphemism
Language
‘If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well / It were done quickly
1.7 - Foreshadowing
Dramatic device
‘Bloody instructions, which being taught, return / To plague th’ inventor’
