Act I
At the end of Act I, Lady Macbeth accuses Macbeth of acting this way as he contemplates killing Duncan?
a coward
This the reason Macbeth decided to kill the guards after killing King Duncan.
to frame the guards for the murder of King Duncan
What did Macbeth see at the banquet table?
Banquo's ghost
Macduff visits this person in this country in an attempt to overthrow Macbeth.
Malcom in England
The doctor and gentlewoman observe Lady Macbeth doing these strange things
sleepwalking and confessing to murder
When Lady Macbeth says "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it" Shakespeare is using what kind of language device?
Simile
"Is this a dagger I see before me?" ... is an example of this type of question.
rhetorical question
The witches' prophecy predicts this for Macbeth and Banquo?
Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland and Banquo's descendants will be King.
After their father is murdered, Donalbain and Malcolm flee to these countries.
England and Ireland
Macbeth decides to kill Banquo and Fleance in this manner and has partial success.
hire two murderers to kill them both, but Fleance gets away
One of the witches is referring to what or whom when she says "something wicked this way comes"?
Macbeth enters
Macbeth dies in this manner as an act of angry vengeance by this character.
Macduff beheads him
Macbeth is an example of this type of hero.
Tragic Hero
This chant by the witches is an example of this literary term often employed by Shakespeare:
“When the hurly burly’s done, / When the battle is lost and won,” (I.4.3-4).
Rhyme
This is Lady Macbeth's plan for King Duncan.
getting the guards drunk so they pass out, so Macbeth can kill the king while he sleeps
This is Lady Macbeth's excuse for not killing Duncan herself?
he looked like her father
Lady Macbeth explains Macbeth's behavior at the banquet in this way.
he often has these fits and then sends the guest home
Ross is the bearer of this news to Macduff?
Macduff's family has been killed
He becomes King of Scotland when Macbeth dies?
Malcom
In all of Shakespeare's plays, he generally writes each line of verse using this meter; with five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable following by one stressed syllable.
iambic pentameter
When Ross tells Macduff his wife and son “were well at peace when I did leave ‘em,” he is implying they are dead or "resting in peace," which is another way to say this literary term.
Connotation
He is sentenced to death in Act 1 for committing treason.
The (original) Thane of Cawdor?
Who was knocking at the gate after the murder?
Macduff and Lennox
Lennox's opinion of Macbeth begins to change in this way at the end of Act III.
Lennox becomes suspicious
In Act IV, the King of England offers this to Malcolm and Macduff in their effort to overthrow Macbeth.
10,000 men
Macbeth realizes he has been tricked by the witches and will die when Macduff tells him this piece of information.
Macduff tells him he was born by c-section
When King Duncan pays a visit Macbeth, he is unaware that Macbeth is plotting to kill him, which is an example of this form of literary irony.
dramatic irony
“Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine / And thrice again, to make up nine,” (I.1.3-4)... is an example of this literary device.
Repetition
This character tells Macbeth:
"Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't."
Lady Macbeth?
Who discovered Duncan was dead?
Macduff
What does this quote mean?
"I am in blood / Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er, (III.4.137-8).
Macbeth has passed the point of no return
The witches show Macbeth a vision of a bloodied child, which represents this.
Macbeth could not be harmed by anyone "born of woman"?
Macbeth dies in Act V, but not before killing this character.
Young Siward
Upon learning of Lady Macbeth's suicide in Act 5, Scene 5, Macbeth begins speaking the most famous words from the play...
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace of day to day... "
A speech like this is more commonly referred to by this literary term in a Shakespeare play.
Soliloquy
After Macbeth murders King Duncan, Shakespeare employs this literary term to lighten the mood when Porter opens the gate to the castle and says, “Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, i th’ name of Beelzebub?” (lI.3.2-3).
Comic Relief