Page 27 - Year 11 Spring 2026 Knowledge Organiser

English Language & Literature: 2 of 5

‘Macbeth’ key quotes 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
• ‘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/
techniques and the effect they have on the reader.
desires,’​ 5. Create revision cards so that you can test yourself. Put

• ‘I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’milk of human the quotes on the front, the techniques and effects on
the back.
kindness’ ​

• ‘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’ ​
 Ambition
• ‘look like th’innocent flower,But be the serpent under’t’​  Supernatural

• ‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only  Appearance and reality
 Good and evil
vaulting ambition’ ​  Fate and freewill

• ‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my  Light and dark
 Guilt
hand?’ ​  Kingship

• ‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’ ​

• ‘By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way

comes’​

• ‘all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. ​’

• ‘this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’​