Tuesday 2nd April A

Question 1

‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No’: who speaks this line?

Answer 1

Macbeth

Question 2

Why does Macbeth say he has ‘blood’ on ‘my hand’?

Answer 2

Because he has murdered the King

Question 3

Who is Neptune?

Answer 3

In Roman mythology, Neptune is God of the Sea

Question 4

What technique is Shakespeare employing here, by having Macbeth say: ‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No’ - and explain why it’s that technique.

Answer 4

Hyperbole, because Macbeth’s use of exaggeration shows that he thinks the murder he has committed is so sinful that even all the seas could not cleanse his soul

Question 5

Macbeth’s reference to Neptune is an example of what?

Answer 5

Allusion to Roman mythology

Question 6

The first line is a question. What type of sentence do we call this and what punctuation mark does it end in?

Answer 6

Interrogative sentence and a question mark

Question 7

What is ‘blood’ a metaphor for? Give three ideas

Answer 7

Guilt, his sin, the deed he did