A character, group of characters, or institution, that represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend.
What is the antagonist?
100
What the apparitions that Macbeth sees in the beginning of the play serve as
What is foreshadowing
100
The setting of the play
What is Scotland
100
The king of Scotland in the opening of the play
Who is Duncan
100
Knock, knock, knock. Who's there?
Who is the porter
200
The main character in a tragedy.
What is the tragic hero?
200
a disparity of awareness between actor and observer: when words and actions possess a significance that the listener or audience understands, but the speaker or character does not.
What is dramatic irony
200
Macbeth sees his ghost in act III.
Who is Banquo
200
Macbeth's hallucinations in Act IV.
What is an armed head, a bloody child, and a child crowned with a tree in his hand.
200
Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight with a new Gorgon.
Who is Macduff
300
The climax and resolution of a plot in drama.
What is catastrophe?
300
the inclusion of a humorous character, scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension.
What is comic relief
300
This character develops the plan to kill Duncan
Who is Lady Macbeth
300
The scene that provides comic relief.
What is the porter scene.
300
Where we are, there's daggers in men's smiles.
Who is Donalbain.
400
The story arc that is made up of inciding incident, rising action, climax, resolution, and denouement (catastrophe).
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
400
a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. By convention the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage. It may be addressed to the audience expressly (in character or out) or represent an unspoken thought. Usually a brief comment
What is an aside
400
What are the three prophecies from the witches in Act I.
What is Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth will be king, and Banquo's children will be greater kings.
400
This is the King of England during the play. Malcolm flees to his palace to ask for assistance
Who is King Edward
400
Thou hast it now...and I fear thou play'dst most foully for't.
Who is Banquo
500
The feeling the audience feels towards Macbeth during the first two acts of the play.
What is pathos?
500
a device often used in drama whereby a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings to him/herself without looking at the audience and to the audience without addressing any of the other characters, and is delivered often when they are alone or think they are alone.
What is soliloquy
500
Which scene do experts believe was not written by Shakespeare and was later added later for effect?
What is Hecate's scene. Act III, scene 5.
500
The additional English noblemen who help Malcolm in the civil war.