Quotes
Terminology
Terminology in Effect
Scenes 1-4
Scenes 5-7
100
"Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty!"
Who is Lady Macbeth
100
A dramatic monologue that represents a series of unspoken reflections
What is soliloquy
100
"Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be/ What thou art promised. Yet I do fear thy nature;/ It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness. . ."
What is soliloquy
100
In scene one, the witches plot to meet this character when the hurlyburly's done.
Who is Macbeth
100
Lady Macbeth receives this item, from this person, right before she gives a soliloquy.
What is a letter from Macbeth
200
"We will establish our estate upon our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter the Prince of Cumberland."
Who is King Duncan
200
The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas
What is Imagery
200
The earth hath bubbles as the water has,/ And these are of them. Whither are they vanished?
What is imagery
200
In scene two, the King names Macbeth to this position without Macbeth's knowledge.
What is the Thane of Cawdor.
200
Lady Macbeth does not believe Macbeth will carry through with killing Duncan because she thinks he is:
What is a coward
300
". . .to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths. . ."
Who is Banquo
300
A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true
What is paradox
300
Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier.
What is paradox
300
When they meet Macbeth and Banquo on the heath, the witches make these three predictions.
What is that Macbeth will become the Thane of Cawdor, that Macbeth will become king, and that Banquo's kin will become kings.
300
The main characters stay in this place the evening the battle ends.
Where is Macbeth's castle
400
"This even-handed justice commends th' ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our own lips. . ."
Who is Macbeth
400
A comparison between two unlike things
What is metaphor
400
(Macbeth to Banquo)Do you not hope your children shall be /kings,/ When those who gave the Thane of Cawdor to me/ Promised no less to them?
What is aside
400
Macbeth and Banquo's children are both predicted to become heirs to the throne. The term for this action is called:
What is irony
400
Lady Macbeth plans to get into Duncan's chamber by doing this.
What is getting the guards drunk.
500
"When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"
Who are the witches?
500
A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as."
What is simile
500
The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me/ in borrowed robes?
What is metaphor
500
Macbeth cannot become king because Duncan named this person to be the next heir.
Who is his son Malcolm
500
Lady Macbeth wishes that she were this so she could commit the murder herself.
What is a man
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