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‘Macbeth’ key quotes
Use accurate verbs to ensure your analysis is precise. 1. You need to learn each quote.
• ‘smoked with bloody execution’ ​ 2. Label each with the techniques it contains
3. Circle and label the words you could use for
Analytical verb​ Meaning • ‘unseamed him from the nave to the chops’ ​ single word analysis.
• ‘Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep 4. Consider why Dickens has used these words/
Emphasises​ Makes clearer to an audience by focusing on something ​ techniques and the effect they have on the reader.
desires,’​ 5. Create revision cards so that you can test yourself. Put
Conveys To get across a message or idea to the audience ​
• ‘I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’milk of human the quotes on the front, the techniques and effects on
Highlights​ Makes the audience focus on something by making an idea stand out ​ the back.
kindness’ ​

Exaggerates​ To make something seem better or worse than it is to emphasise an idea to the audience.​ • ‘unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe Which quotes can you match to the following themes?

topfull ​of direst cruelty’ ​
Illustrates​ Makes the audience visualise a particular image or idea ​  Ambition
• ‘look like th’innocent flower,But be the serpent under’t’ ​  Supernatural
Amplifies​ Emphasises something by making it clearer by adding more detail​
• ‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only  Appearance and reality
Indicates​ Helps the audience to see a particular idea ​  Good and evil
vaulting ambition’ ​  Fate and freewill
Evokes​ Make an audience feel a particular emotion​
• ‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my  Light and dark
Provokes​ Makes the audience react to something ​  Guilt
hand?’ ​  Kingship
Foreshadows​ Provides hints to the audience about something that may happen in the future ​
• ‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’ ​
Parallels​ Seems to be similar or the same as another part of the text, character or theme. • ‘By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way

Reiterates​ To re-emphasise to the audience; to repeat an idea for added emphasis comes’ ​

• ‘all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. ​’
Symbolises​ Uses a particular image to represent a deeper meaning for the audience ​
• ‘this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’ ​