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122 Quiz Understand the Supernatural in Macbeth
MACBETH. Stars, hide your fires
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene iv
LADY MACBETH. Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes.
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, Scene v
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both refer to
for the events in the play.
to set a scary tone
O A. weapons
O B. desire
O c. fire
O D. darkness

D. Darkness

Explanation:

MACBETH. Stars, hide your fires  / Let not light see my black and deep desires.

Macbeth is invoking darkness for the purpose of hiding his "black and deep desires."

LADY MACBETH. Come, thick night,  / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,  / That my keen knife see not the wound it makes.

Lady Macbeth is beckoning the night to obscure her form "That [her] keen knife sees not the wound it makes."

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

the answer is irony!