Act 1
Which literary term is expressed in the following lines "will I with wine and wassail so convince"? Act 1 Scene 7
What is alliteration?
Which literary term is expressed in the following lines "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" ? Act 2 Scene 2
What is allusion?
Which literary term is expressed in the following lines "We have scorched the snake, not killed it." ? Act 3 Scene 2
What is a metaphor?
Which literary term is expressed in the following lines "...stanchless avarice...would be as a sauce to make me hunger more..."? Act 4 Scene 3
What is a simile?
Which literary term is expressed in the following lines "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player/That struts and frets his hour upon the stage." ? Act 5 Scene 5
What is personification?
Once Macbeth was named Thane of Cawdor, who was named his successor to the throne? (Act 1 Scene 4)
Who is Malcolm?
Macbeth has a vision of what inanimate object, leaving him questioning reality? Act 2 Scene 1
What is a dagger?
Who were the killers that Macbeth hired set to kill? Act 3 Scene 3
Who is Banquo?
Whose family does Macbeth hire the killers to murder? Act 4 Scene 2
Who is Macduff?
Who is the new king of Scotland after Macbeth is killed? Act 5 Scene 9
Who is Malcolm?
What is the meaning of the following lines "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face." Act 1 Scene 4
It is impossible to tell a person's true thoughts by looking on the outside.
What is the meaning of the following lines said by Macbeth "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee." Act 2 Scene 1
Macbeth can not determine if the dagger he sees before him is fake or reality.
What is the meaning of the following lines said by Macbeth "To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo stick deep." Act 3 Scene 1
Macbeth feels as if the position of king is pointless unless he feels secure, and he feels as if Banquo will betray him.
What is the meaning of the following lines "Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn / The power of man, for none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth" Act 4 Scene 1
If man is not born naturally by a woman, for example Macduff was born by C-section, then he is less powerful than one born naturally, as Macbeth was born from naturally.
What is the meaning of the following lines said by Lady Macbeth "Here's the smell of blood still: all perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" Act 5 Scene 1
Lady Macbeth fears that someone will find out about what she has done and is paranoid that she wont be able to hide it