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This person is unsure if "this supernatural soliciting" is ill or good.

Who is Macbeth?
100

This person wants to be filled with "direst cruelty".

Who is Lady Macbeth?

100

This man is King at the beginning of the play.

Who is King Duncan?

100

This is the country where the play begins.

What is Scotland?

100

This is the repetition of the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.



What is alliteration?

200

When Macbeth says "So fair and foul a day I have not seen." he's referring to this.

What is the loss of life and victory on the battle field?

200

This is what "supernatural soliciting" means.

What is the Witches' prophecies?

200

This person is Macbeth's Wife.

Who is Lady Macbeth?
200

These are the titles by which the Witches greet Macbeth.

What is Glamis, Cawdor, and King?

200

This is the term for a character speaking his/her thoughts while others are on stage but cannot hear.

What is an aside?

300

Banquo was referring to this when he said "Were such things as we do speak about?".

Who are the Witches?

300

This person's nature is "too full o' the milk of human kindness".

Who is Macbeth?

300

This person is executed for being a traitor.

Who is the Thane of Cawdor?

300

These are the prophecies the Witches give Banquo.

What is lesser and greater, not so happy yet much happier, get kings though thou be none?
300

This is occurs when the audience knows something important that the characters do not know.

"The Thane of Cawdor"

What is dramatic irony?

400

This is what "look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath" means.

What is be nice to Duncan now so he won't suspect he's about to be murdered?

400
Banquo refers to the Witches as this.

What is "instruments of darkness"?

400

This is Macbeth's BFF and partner in battle.

Who is Banquo?

400
These are the reasons Macbeth gives for not killing Duncan.

What is he's his cousin, his guest, and his king?

400

This is a contradictory statement that holds some truth.

"Fair is foul and foul is fair"

"when the battle is lost and won"

What is a paradox?

500

This is the "suggestion" that makes Macbeth's "seated heart knock" at his ribs.

What is murdering Duncan?

500

This is the prophecy from the Witches which could lead to danger for Banquo.

What is "Thou shalt get kings though thou be none."?

500

This person is officially named as Duncan's successor.

Who is Malcolm?

500
This is Lady Macbeth's plan for killing Duncan.

What is get the guards drunk, stab Duncan while he sleeps, and pretend to be extremely upset?

500

This is the term for a character speaking his/her thoughts alone on stage.

What is a soliloquy?

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