Macbeth Literary Devices Review Worksheet - English I Pre-AP

English I Pre-AP
Literature – Macbeth
Literary Terms: Use handout from Act I, “A Glossary of Literary Terms,” to help you complete this
worksheet.
Structure of Shakespeare’s Plays
Plot is divided into five ____________, which are then subdivided into ______________, in which there
are no shifts in locale or time.
Act 1: Exposition: ____________________________________________________________________
Act 2: Inciting Incident, Complications, and Rising Action____________________________________
Act 3: Climax and turning points_________________________________________________________
Act 4: Falling Action, fall-out from the climax________________________________________________
Act 5: Resolution______________________________________________________________________
Character Speech
Aside: ______________________________________________________________________________
Example from Macbeth: __________________________________________________________
Soliloquy: ___________________________________________________________________________
Example from Macbeth: __________________________________________________________
Rhetoric: ___________________________________________________________________________
Example from Macbeth: __________________________________________________________
Mood
Atmosphere: _________________________________________________________________________
Example from Macbeth: __________________________________________________________
Comic Relief: _________________________________________________________________________
Example from Macbeth: __________________________________________________________
Shakespeare uses the following literary devices throughout Macbeth. Identify the literary device used in
each of the following lines. Then, identify the character speaking.
alliteration
metaphor
allusion
paradox
dramatic irony
personification
imagery
simile
1. LD:___________________ “Fair is foul and foul is fair.”
LD:___________________
C: __________________
2.
LD:___________________ “And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling…”
C: __________________
3.
LD:___________________ “Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”
C: __________________
4.
LD:___________________ “Look like th’ innocent flower,/ But be the serpent under ‘t.”
C: __________________
5.
LD:___________________ “This castle hath a pleasant seat.”
C: __________________
6.
LD:___________________ “The sleeping and the dead/ Are but as pictures.”
C: __________________
7.
LD:___________________ “We have scorched the snake, not killed it.”
C: __________________
8.
LD:___________________ “Light thickens, and the crow/ Makes wing to th’ rocky wood./
C: __________________ Good things of day begin to droop and drowse….”
9.
LD:___________________ “My genius is rebuked, as it is said/ Mark Antony’s was by Ceaser.”
C: __________________
10.
LD:___________________ “But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined....”
C: __________________
11.
LD:___________________ “Such welcome and unwelcome things at once…”
C: __________________
12.
LD:___________________ “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets
C: __________________ 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.”