Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
Literary Terms I
Literary Terms II
100

At the end of Act I, Lady Macbeth accuses Macbeth of acting this way as he contemplates killing Duncan?

a coward

100

This the reason Macbeth decided to kill the guards after killing King Duncan.

to frame the guards for the murder of King Duncan

100

What did Macbeth see at the banquet table?

Banquo's ghost

100

Macduff visits this person in this country in an attempt to overthrow Macbeth.

Malcom in England

100

The doctor and gentlewoman observe Lady Macbeth doing these strange things

sleepwalking and confessing to murder

100

When Lady Macbeth says "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it" Shakespeare is using what kind of language device?

Simile

100

"Is this a dagger I see before me?" ... is an example of this type of question.

rhetorical question

200

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 King.

200

After their father is murdered, Donalbain and Malcolm flee to these countries.

 England and Ireland

200

Macbeth decides to kill Banquo and Fleance in this manner and has partial success.

hire two murderers to kill them both, but Fleance gets away

200

One of the witches is referring to what or whom when she says "something wicked this way comes"?

Macbeth enters

200

Macbeth dies in this manner as an act of angry vengeance by this character.

Macduff beheads him

200

Macbeth is an example of this type of hero.

Tragic Hero

200

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).

Rhyme

300

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

300

This is Lady Macbeth's excuse for not killing Duncan herself?

he looked like her father

300

Lady Macbeth explains Macbeth's behavior at the banquet in this way.

he often has these fits and then sends the guest home

300

Ross is the bearer of this news to Macduff?

Macduff's family has been killed

300

He becomes King of Scotland when Macbeth dies?

Malcom

300

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

300

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," which is another way to say this literary term.

Connotation

400

He is sentenced to death in Act 1 for committing treason.

The (original) Thane of Cawdor?

400

Who was knocking at the gate after the murder?

Macduff and Lennox

400

Lennox's opinion of Macbeth begins to change in this way at the end of Act III.

 Lennox becomes suspicious

400

In Act IV, the King of England offers this to Malcolm and Macduff in their effort to overthrow Macbeth.

10,000 men

400

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

400

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.

dramatic irony

400

“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

500

This character tells Macbeth:

"Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't."

Lady Macbeth?

500

Who discovered Duncan was dead?

Macduff

500

What does this quote mean?

"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 passed the point of no return

500

The witches show Macbeth a vision of a bloodied child, which represents this.

Macbeth could not be harmed by anyone "born of woman"?

500

Macbeth dies in Act V, but not before killing this character.

Young Siward

500

Upon learning of Lady Macbeth's suicide in Act 5, 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 by this literary term in a Shakespeare play.

Soliloquy

500

After Macbeth murders King Duncan, Shakespeare employs this literary term 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).  

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