Excerpt from macbeth by william shakespeare duncan: dismay'd not this our captains, macbeth and banquo? sergeant: yes; as sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. if i say sooth, i must report they were as cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe: except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, or memorise another golgotha, i cannot tell. but i am faint, my gashes cry for . duncan: so well thy words become thee as thy wounds; they smack of honour both. go get him surgeons. how does shakespeare's use of figurative language in this excerpt affect the play? by alluding to golgotha, the site of jesus' crucifixion in the bible, the sergeant suggests that macbeth and banquo sacrificed themselves nobly and selflessly on the battlefield. by describing macbeth and banquo as "cannons overcharged with double cracks," the sergeant depicts the two men as being too zealous and eager when confronting the enemy. by referencing fast animals like sparrows and the hare, the sergeant paints a vivid mental picture of the speed with which macbeth and banquo fled during the fight. by comparing macbeth and banquo to

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

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