Act I
At the end of Act I, Lady Macbeth accuses Macbeth of acting this way as he contemplates killing Duncan?
What is a coward?
This the reason Macbeth decided to kill the guards after killing King Duncan.
What is to frame the guards for the murder of King Duncan?
What did Macbeth see at the banquet table?
What is Banquo's ghost?
Macduff visits this person in this country in an attempt to overthrow Macbeth.
Who is Malcom? and Where is England?
The doctor and gentlewoman observe Lady Macbeth doing these strange things
What is sleepwalking and confessing to murder?
This is when a character speaks to the audience only, but other characters are still on stage.
What is an Aside?
He says "Is this a dagger I see before me?"
Who is Macbeth?
The witches' prophecy predicts this for Macbeth and Banquo?
What is Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland and Banquo's descendants will be King.
After their father is murdered, Donalbain and Malcolm flee to these countries.
What are England and Ireland?
Macbeth decides to kill Banquo and Fleance in this manner and has partial success.
What is hire two murderers to kill them both, but Fleance gets away?
One of the witches is referring to what or whom when she says "something wicked this way comes"?
What is Macbeth enters?
Macbeth dies in this manner as an act of angry vengeance by this character.
What is Macduff beheads him?
Macbeth is an example of this type of hero.
What is a Tragic Hero?
The "when the" in this chant by the witches is an example of this literary term often employed by Shakespeare:
“When the hurly burly’s done, / When the battle is lost and won,” (I.4.3-4).
What is Parallelism/Parallel Structure?
This is Lady Macbeth's plan for King Duncan.
What is 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?
What is he looked like her father?
Lady Macbeth explains Macbeth's behavior at the banquet in this way.
What is he often has these fits and then sends the guest home?
Ross is the bearer of this news to Macduff?
What is Macduff's family has been killed?
He becomes King of Scotland when Macbeth dies?
Who is 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.
What is iambic pentameter?
When Ross tells Macduff his wife and son “were well at peace when I did leave ‘em,” he is implying they are dead or "resting in peace," what device is he using in this instance?
What is metaphor?
He is sentenced to death in Act 1 for committing treason.
Who is The (original) Thane of Cawdor?
Who was knocking at the gate after the murder?
Who are Macduff and Lennox?
Lennox's opinion of Macbeth begins to change in this way at the end of Act III.
What is Lennox becomes suspicious?
In Act IV, the King of England offers this to Malcolm and Macduff in their effort to overthrow Macbeth.
What is 10,000 men?
Macbeth realizes he has been tricked by the witches and will die when Macduff tells him this piece of information.
What is Macduff tells him he was born by c-section?
When King Duncan pays a visit Macbeth, he is unaware that Macbeth is plotting to kill him, which is an example of this form of literary irony.
What is 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.
What is end rhyme or repetition?
This character tells Macbeth:
"Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't."
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Who discovered Duncan was dead?
Who is Macduff?
Macbeth is saying this when tells Lady Macbeth this in Act III...
"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).
What is Macbeth has past the point of no return?
The witches show Macbeth a vision of a bloodied child, which represents this.
What is Macbeth could not be harmed by anyone "born of woman"?
Macbeth dies in Act V, but not before killing this character.
Who is the Young Siward?
Upon learning of Lady Macbeth's suicide in Act V, Scene 5, Macbeth begins speaking the most famous words from the play...
He says that life is a tale told by this.
What is an idiot?
After Macbeth murders King Duncan, Shakespeare employs this characters opens the gate to the castle and says, “Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, i th’ name of Beelzebub?” (lI.3.2-3).
Who is the Porter?