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1) Which best describes what Malcolm is advising Macduff to do when he says -
Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief / Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.
Well, more anon.—Comes the king forth, I pray you?
Good God, betimes remove / The means that makes us strangers!
Be ’t their comfort / We are coming thither.
2) Which passage contains an example of alliteration?
Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits.
Poor prattler, how thou talk’st!
Thou liest, thou shag-haired villain!
Than summer-seeming lust, and it hath been / The sword of our slain kings.
3) What best describes what Malcolm is
expressing when he says -
“Desire his jewels and this other’s house:
And my more-having would be as a sauce /
To make me hunger more.”
Power
Revenge
Pride
Greed
4) "Which of the following is not a prophecy or foreshadowing from the witches for Macbeth?"
By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes.
I will be satisfied. Deny me this / and an eternal curse fall on you!
Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough
Laugh to scorn the pow’r of man / for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.
5) After adding animal parts and other gross
stuff to their cauldron, the three witches say -
“Double double toil and trouble / Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
This is best described as what kind of speech?
Mockery
Onomatopoeia
Chant
Invective
Explanation & Answer
Macbeth act 4
Question 1
Which best describes what Malcolm is advising Macduff to do when he says Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief / Convert to anger; blunt, not the heart, enrage it.
Answer:
Macduff's families have quite recently been killed at the request of Macbeth. Malcolm is
instructing him to ...
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