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Macbeth, Part 2: Rhetorical Appeals Answers

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Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 5 of The Tragedy Macbeth.Lady Macbeth. Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!Thy letters have transported me beyondThis ignorant present, and I feel nowThe future in the instant.

A
She creates pathos by suggesting that Macbeth will attain more than the title of thane.
B
She creates logos by justifying the need for assassinating the king.
C
She creates ethos by appealing to Macbeth’s sense of duty.
D
She creates logos by explaining the reasons Macbeth should be hailed king.
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Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 7 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Lady Macbeth. We fail!But screw your courage to the sticking-place,And we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep,Whereto the rather shall his day’s hard journeySoundly invite him, his two chamberlainsWill I with wine and wassail so convinceThat memory, the warder of the brain,Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reasonA limbeck only; when in swinish sleepTheir drenched natures lie, as in a death,What cannot you and I perform uponThe unguarded Duncan? what not put uponHis spongy officers, who shall bear the guiltOf our great quell? Macbeth. Bring forth men-children only;For thy undaunted mettle should composeNothing but males. Will it not be receiv’d,When we have mark’d with blood those sleepy twoOf his own chamber, and us’d their very daggers,That they have done ’t? Lady Macbeth. Who dares receive it other,As we shall make our griefs and clamour roarUpon his death? Macbeth. I am settled, and bend upEach corporal agent to this terrible feat.Away, and mock the time with fairest show:False face must hide what the false heart doth know. [Exeunt.]

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to prove to his wife that his loyalties are to the crown and to her
B
to convince his wife of the necessity of hiding her true purpose
C
to convince his wife that he is prepared to commit the murder
D
to persuade his wife to deceive the king and his servants
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Read the excerpt from act 2, scene 1 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Banquo. All’s well.[Speaking privately to MACBETH.] I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:To you they have show’d some truth. Macbeth. I think not of them:Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,We would spend it in some words upon that business,If you would grant the time. Banquo. At your kind’st leisure. Macbeth. If you shall cleave to my consent, when ’tis,It shall make honour for you. Banquo. So I lose noneIn seeking to augment it, but still keepMy bosom franchis’d and allegiance clear,I shall be counsell’d.

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to demonstrate the importance of following the Weird Sisters’ advice
B
to coax Macbeth into believing the truths in the Weird Sisters’ prophecies
C
to revive Macbeth’s commitment to serve as an honorable subject to the crown
D
to imply that he is interested in future promotions in the ranks of noblemen
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Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 7 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Lady Macbeth. We fail!But screw your courage to the sticking-place,And we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep,Whereto the rather shall his day’s hard journeySoundly invite him, his two chamberlainsWill I with wine and wassail so convinceThat memory, the warder of the brain,Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reasonA limbeck only; when in swinish sleepTheir drenched natures lie, as in a death,What cannot you and I perform uponThe unguarded Duncan? what not put uponHis spongy officers, who shall bear the guiltOf our great quell?

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“But screw your courage to the sticking-place, / And we’ll not fail.”
B
“When Duncan is asleep, / Whereto the rather shall his day’s hard journey / Soundly invite him”
C
“What cannot you and I perform upon / The unguarded Duncan?”
D
“what not put upon / His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt / Of our great quell?”
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Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 7 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Macbeth. If we should fail,— Lady Macbeth. We fail!But screw your courage to the sticking-place,And we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep,Whereto the rather shall his day’s hard journeySoundly invite him, his two chamberlainsWill I with wine and wassail so convinceThat memory, the warder of the brain,Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reasonA limbeck only; when in swinish sleepTheir drenched natures lie, as in a death,What cannot you and I perform uponThe unguarded Duncan? what not put uponHis spongy officers, who shall bear the guiltOf our great quell?

A
By thoroughly explaining how the wine will affect the guards, she proves that her plan is perfect.
B
By reasonably weighing the opportunities and obstacles, she shows that her assassination scheme is sensible.
C
By rationally questioning Macbeth’s courage to seek the crown, she is able to allay his fear of failure.
D
By systematically detailing the plan to murder the king, she demonstrates that her plan is flawless.
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Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 7 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Lady Macbeth. Was the hope drunk,Wherein you dress’d yourself? hath it slept since,And wakes it now, to look so green and paleAt what it did so freely? From this timeSuch I account thy love. Art thou afeardTo be the same in thine own act and valourAs thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have thatWhich thou esteem’st the ornament of life,And live a coward in thine own esteem,Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would,’Like the poor cat i’ the adage?

A
She creates pathos by questioning Macbeth’s strength.
B
She creates logos by describing the necessity to murder Duncan.
C
She creates logos by describing Macbeth’s past acts of heroism.
D
She creates pathos by questioning Macbeth’s courage.
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Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 5 of The Tragedy Macbeth.Lady Macbeth. O! neverShall sun that morrow see.Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under ’t. He that’s comingMust be provided for; and you shall putThis night’s great business into my dispatch;Which shall to all our nights and days to comeGive solely sovereign sway and masterdom.

A
“O! never / Shall sun that morrow see.”
B
“Your face, my thane, is as a book where men / May read strange matters.”
C
“Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under ’t.”
D
“He that’s coming / Must be provided for”
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Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 7 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Lady Macbeth. Was the hope drunk,Wherein you dress’d yourself? hath it slept since,And wakes it now, to look so green and paleAt what it did so freely? From this timeSuch I account thy love. Art thou afeardTo be the same in thine own act and valourAs thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have thatWhich thou esteem’st the ornament of life,And live a coward in thine own esteem,Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would,’Like the poor cat i’ the adage? Macbeth. Prithee, peace.I dare do all that may become a man;Who dares do more is none.

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to reestablish his position as lord of the castle
B
to remind his wife that he is more courageous than all others
C
to convince his wife of his unwavering love for her
D
to demonstrate his resolve to remain loyal to Duncan

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