Read the excerpt from act 4, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Ross and Lady Macduff have just discussed Macduff’s flight from their kingdom, and Ross is ending their conversation.[Ross.] I take my leave of you:Shall not be long but I’ll be here again:Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upwardTo what they were before. [To Macduff’s Son.] My pretty cousin,Blessing upon you!
What is irony?
Which sentence contains an example of meiosis?
Which sentence contains an idiom?
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 opeThe Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thenceThe life o’ the building!
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 dayTo the last syllable of recorded time,And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Sergeant. Doubtful it stood;As two spent swimmers, that do cling togetherAnd choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald—Worthy to be a rebel, for to thatThe multiplying villanies of natureDo swarm upon him—from the western islesOf 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 passageTill 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.
Read the excerpt from act 4, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Malcolm is explaining to Macduff what makes him grieve and what he believes in.Malcolm. What I believe I’ll wail,What know believe, and what I can redress,As I shall find the time to friend, I will.
Excerpt 1: Read the excerpt from act 2, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth has just killed Duncan. He refuses to take the daggers back to the room, so Lady Macbeth takes them. Macbeth is alone and staring at his bloody hands.Lady Macbeth. Infirm of purpose!Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the deadAre but as pictures; ’tis the eye of childhoodThat fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal;70For it must seem their guilt.[Exit. Knocking within.]Macbeth. Whence is that knocking?How is ’t with me, when every noise appals me?What hands are here! Ha! they pluck out mine eyes.Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this bloodClean from my hand? No, this my hand will ratherThe multitudinous seas incarnadine,Making the green one red.Excerpt 2: Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is hosting a feast when he sees Banquo’s ghost and starts speaking to it. No one else can see the ghost, and Lady Macbeth tries to explain away Macbeth’s behavior to the guests.Macbeth. Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;Thou hast no speculation in those eyesWhich thou dost glare with.Lady Macbeth. Think of this, good peers,But as a thing of custom: ’tis no other;Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.Macbeth. What man dare, I dare:Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The arm’d rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble: or be alive again,And dare me to the desert with thy sword;If trembling I inhabit then, protest meThe baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!Unreal mockery, hence!
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Duncan. Dismay’d not thisOur captains, Macbeth and Banquo?Sergeant. Yes;As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.If I say sooth, I must report they wereAs cannons overcharg’d with double cracks;So theyDoubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,Or memorize another Golgotha,I cannot tell—But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.
Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Banquo and his son, Fleance, have been overtaken by the murderers Macbeth has sent after them.Banquo. O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!Thou mayst revenge. O slave!
Which sentence contains an example of ethos?
Excerpt 1: Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 1 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is thinking about killing Banquo. He remembers the witches’ prophecy that Banquo’s sons will be king after Macbeth. In this excerpt, "seed” means "descendants.”[Macbeth.] He chid the sistersWhen first they put the name of king upon me,And bade them speak to him; then, prophet-like,They hail’d him father to a line of kings.Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown,And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,Thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand,No son of mine succeeding. If ’t be so,For Banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind;For them the gracious Duncan have I murder’d;Put rancours in the vessel of my peaceOnly for them; and mine eternal jewelGiven to the common enemy of man,To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!Excerpt 2: Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is speaking with Lady Macbeth. He suggests that something terrible will happen to Banquo and to Banquo’s son, Fleance, tonight.Macbeth. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible handCancel and tear to pieces that great bondWhich keeps me pale! Light thickens, and the crowMakes wing to the rooky wood;Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,[While] night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.Thou marvell’st at my words: but hold thee still;Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill:So, prithee, go with me.
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 revoltThe newest state. Malcolm. This is the sergeantWho, like a good and hardy soldier fought’Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!Say to the king the knowledge of the broilAs thou didst leave it. Sergeant. Doubtful it stood;As two spent swimmers, that do cling togetherAnd choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald—Worthy to be a rebel, for to thatThe multiplying villanies of natureDo swarm upon him—from the western islesOf 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 passageTill 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.
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 spokenHere where our fate, hid in an auger-hole,May rush and seize us? Let’s away: our tearsAre not yet brew’d.
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