Characters
Literary Terms
Who? What? When? Where?
Why?
100
These two characters meet the witches in the woods
Who are Macbeth and Banquo?
100
When the audience knows something that the characters do not
What is dramatic irony?
100
The opening scene involves three witches, the weather is _______________ and _________________ has broken out in Scotland
What is rainy/windy/thunder and lightning and what is war?
100
Macbeth decides to kill Duncan because Lady Macbeth does this
What is manipulate him?
200
This is the name of the King of Scotland in Act I
Who is Duncan
200
When the author uses words or phrases that appeal to the reader's five senses in an attempt to create a vivid image in the reader's mind
What is imagery?
200
This character said "You should look like an innocent flower, but be the snake that hides under the flower"(Mac. 1.5.67-68).
Who is Lady Macbeth?
200
The king makes Macbeth the Thane of Cawdor because
What is the original thane betrayed the king and Macbeth was epic in battle?
300
Banquo's son is named
Who is Fleance?
300
When there is one character speaking on stage and they are revealing their inner thoughts and conflicts,
What is soliloquy?
300
Lady Macbeth gets these characters drunk to set them up to take the blame for Duncan's murder
Who are his guards?
300
Malcolm and Donalbain become suspects in their father's murder. Macduff suggests that they killed their father for this reason
What is ambition?
400
Duncan's sons are named
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain?
400
When author's mix fact and fiction to make a story more interesting
What is dramatic license?
400
Macbeth forgets to leave these at the scene of the crime
What are daggers?
400
Witch number 1 causes a huge storm to torment a sailor because
What is his wife would not share a chestnut with her and called her a witch?
500
This character finds King Duncan's body
Who is Macduff?
500
The sun was shining and the birds chirped in the meadows. There was a light dew on the tips of the flowers that were freshly bloomed. A small deer and its mother basked in the early morning light. The author uses imagery to create this type of tone.
What is cheerful/upbeat/fresh/hopeful/positive
500
If Duncan didn't remind Lady Macbeth of this person, she would have killed him herself.
Who is her father?
500
Lady Macbeth has to be carried off stage (at the scene of the crime) because
What is she is putting up a front?
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