Act I
At the end of Act I, Lady Macbeth accuses Macbeth of acting this way as he contemplates killing Duncan?
cowardly
This the reason Macbeth decided to kill the guards after killing King Duncan.
To frame the guards for the murder of King Duncan
What did Macbeth see at the banquet table?
Banquo's ghost.
Macduff visits who in which country in an attempt to overthrow Macbeth?
Malcom in England
What do the doctor and gentlewoman observe Lady Macbeth doing?
Sleepwalking and confessing to murder.
When Lady Macbeth says "look like the innocent flower" Shakespeare is using a ...
Simile.
"Is this a dagger I see before me?" ... is an example of this type of question.
Rhetorical question.
The witches' prophecy predicts this for Macbeth and Banquo?
Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland and Banquo's descendants will be Kings.
After their father is murdered, Donalbain and Malcolm flee to these countries.
England and Ireland
Macbeth decides to kill Banquo and Fleance in this manner and has partial success.
Hires two murderers to kill them both, but Fleance gets away.
One of the witches is referring to whom when she says "something wicked this way comes"?
Macbeth enters.
In an act of angry vengeance, what does Macduff do to Macbeth's body?
Macduff puts Macbeth's head on a stick.
Macbeth is an example of what type of hero?
A Tragic Hero.
This chant by the witches has an example of this structural sound technique:
“When the hurly burly’s done, / When the battle is lost and won,” (I.4.3-4).
Rhyme.
This is Lady Macbeth's plan for King Duncan.
Getting the guards drunk so they pass out, so Macbeth can kill the king while he sleeps.
This is Lady Macbeth's excuse for not killing Duncan herself.
He looked like her father as he slept.
Lady Macbeth explains Macbeth's behavior at the banquet in this way.
He often has these fits.
Ross is the bearer of this news to Macduff.
Macduff's family has been killed.
Who becomes King of Scotland when Macbeth dies?
Malcom.
In all of Shakespeare's plays, he generally writes each line of verse using this meter; with five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable following by one stressed syllable.
Iambic pentameter.
"His brandished steel smoked with bloody execution" is an example of a....
Metaphor.
Who is sentenced to death in Act 1 for committing treason.
The (original) Thane of Cawdor
Who was knocking at the gate after the murder?
Macduff and Lennox.
Lennox's opinion of Macbeth begins to change in this way at the end of Act III.
Lennox becomes suspicious.
In Act IV what does the King of England offer to Malcolm and Macduff in their effort to overthrow Macbeth.
10,000 men.
Macbeth realizes he has been tricked by the witches and will die when Macduff tells him this piece of information.
Macduff tells him he was born by c-section.
When King Duncan pays a visit to Macbeth, he is unaware that Macbeth is plotting to kill him, what is this an example of?
Dramatic irony.
“Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine / And thrice again, to make up nine,” (I.1.3-4)... is an example of this literary device.
Repetition
This character tells Macbeth:
"Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't."
Lady Macbeth
Who discovered Duncan was dead?
Macduff.
Macbeth tell this to Lady Macbeth and it means...
"I am in blood / Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er, (III.4.137-8).
Macbeth has past the point of no return and going back would be as hard as going forward.
The witches show Macbeth a vision of a bloodied child, what prophecy does it represent?
Macbeth could not be harmed by anyone "born of woman"
Macbeth dies in Act V, but not before killing this character.
Young Siward.
Upon learning of Lady Macbeth's suicide in Act V, Scene 5, Macbeth begins speaking the most famous words from the play...
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace of day to day... "
A speech like this is more commonly referred to as a...
Soliloquy.
After Macbeth murders King Duncan, Shakespeare employs this dramatic device often found in tragedies to lighten the mood when Porter opens the gate to the castle and says, “Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, i th’ name of Beelzebub?” (lI.3.2-3).
Comic Relief.