Which sentence contains a metaphor?
What is a universal theme?
What information do stage directions in a play usually include?
Which sentence contains an idiom?
What is the definition of "allusion”?
What is blocking?
Which sentence contains an example of meiosis?
Read the sentence. The drought-ridden ground gratefully drank in the rain. Which type of figurative language does this sentence contain?
What information is found in stage directions in a drama?
Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 5 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth has just received news of his wife’s death. In this excerpt, "signifying” means "representing.” Macbeth: She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. The excerpt develops the universal theme "the relationship between violence and human nature” by suggesting that
Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth . Lady Macbeth is speaking to herself. She has just sent her servant to tell Macbeth that she would like to speak to him. Lady Macbeth: Nought’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without content: ’Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. Which line contains the best example of alliteration?
Read the passage from act 2, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macduff: Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence The life o’ the building! Which rhetorical device does Macduff use in the underlined text?
Read the passage from act 2, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Malcolm: [ Aside to DONALBAIN.] Why do we hold our tongues, That most may claim this argument for ours: Donalbain: [ Aside to MALCOLM.] What should be spoken Here where our fate, hid in an auger-hole, May rush and seize us? Let’s away: our tears Are not yet brew’d. Why does Malcolm ask Donalbain, "Why do we hold our tongues”?
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth . Sergeant: Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald— Worthy to be a rebel, for to that The multiplying villanies of nature Do swarm upon him—from the western isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Show’d like a rebel’s whore: but all’s too weak; For brave Macbeth,—well he deserves that name,— Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel, Which smok’d with bloody execution, Like valour’s minion carv’d out his passage Till he fac’d the slave; Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps, And fix’d his head upon our battlements. Which statement best describes the sergeant’s use of persuasion in his recounting of the battle to King Duncan?
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth . Duncan: What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state. Malcolm: This is the sergeant Who, like a good and hardy soldier fought ’Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil As thou didst leave it. In which phrase from the excerpt does Malcolm create pathos?
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