Macbeth paper 1

Question 1

What language techniques would you find in Macbeth?

Answer 1

Metaphors/similes/personification
Imagery.
Use of colour - connotations.
Alliteration/assonance/sibilance.
Oxymoron.
Juxtaposition.
Recurring motifs.

Question 2

What structural devices would you find in Macbeth?

Answer 2

Punctuation.
Lack of punctuation/fractured sentences.
Repetition.
Sentence length.
Questions - repeated.
Soliloquy.
Rhyme - couplets.
How the extracts begins and ends.

Question 3

Name 5 recurring motifs throughout Macbeth?

Answer 3

Blood imagery.
Supernatural.
Regicide.
Heaven and hell.
Darkness and light.

Question 4

What MUST you always do in the EXAM?

Answer 4

Analyse language/imagery and structure/form.

As well as commenting on the effect on the audience.

Question 5

Always refer to the audience by saying what?

Answer 5

What does the audience think of the character?