Macbeth Act 3 Practice
1) Which passage is an example of imagery?
A woman’s story at a winter’s
fire / Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!
Oh, full of scorpions is my
mind dear wife!
And though I could / With barefaced
power sweep him from my sight…
We hear our bloody cousins are
bestowed / In England and in Ireland, not confessing…
2) Which passage is an example of figurative
language?
Treason has done his worst;
nor steel nor poison / Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing / Can touch him
further.
Then stand with us. The west
yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
Thou canst not say I did it.
Never shake / Thy gory locks at me.
It is concluded Banquo, thy
soul’s flight / If it find heaven, must find it out tonight.
3) Which passage is an example of
alliteration?
Why, by the verities on thee
made good / May they not be my oracles as well / And set me up in hope? But hush, no more.
My genius is rebuked, as it is
said / Mark Antony’s was by Caesar.
Acquaint you with the perfect
spy o’ th’ time / The moment on ’t; for ’t must be done tonight…
Whose heavy hand hath bowed
you to the grave / And beggared yours forever?
4) Upon my head they placed a fruitless
crown,
and put a barren scepter in my grip.
These lines are an example of what feature of literary style.
Imagery
Alliteration
Allusion
Figurative Language
5) Let your Highness
Command upon me, to the which my duties
are with a most indissoluble tie
forever knit.
These lines are an example of what feature of literary style?
Alliteration
Figurative Language
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
