Scenes 1-4
What Macbeth is saying at the end of scene 4: The Prince of Cumberland — that is a step / On which I must fall down, or else overleap, / For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires.
What is something to the effect of, "The Prince is something that will stop me from becoming king unless I can figure out a way around it / Stars, look away, I don't want my dark desire for the throne to be brought to light" ?
What is.....get his servants/attendants drunk so that they sleep soundly enough that Macbeth can sneak in and stab him, and then frame them but wiping his blood on their knives?
The sound-based poetic device is used in the line, "fair is foul and foul is fair".
What is alliteration?
When a character addresses the audience during a scene with others. It is understood that the other characters on stage do not hear an aside, despite being on stage.
What is an aside?
This character is the king of Scotland.
Who is Duncan?
What Macbeth receives in scene 3 after the witches disappear.
What is the news that he will be the Thane of Cawdor?
The person Banquo is talking about when he says, "But he rides well, / And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath helped him / To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess, / We are your guest to-night."
Who is Macbeth?
What poetic device is used by Macbeth in Act 1.7:
This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice / To our own lips.
What is a metaphor
A long speech delivered by a character during a conversation with other characters.
What is a monologue?
This character is the Thane of Glamis.
Who is Macbeth?
Banquo's attitude towards the prophecy made by the witches in scene 3 / Macbeth's reaction to it:
"Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear / Things that do sound so fair?"
What is positive / optimistic
What Lady Macbeth means by, "Hie thee hither / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, / And chastise, with the valor of my tongue, / All that impedes thee from the golden round"
What is something to the effect of, "Hurry to me so that I can talk to you and convince you to do what you need to do to become king."
The device is used in the following line spoken by Lady Macbeth:
Look like the innocent flower / But be the serpent under't.
What is metaphor?
This is a revelation of a character's innermost thoughts and feelings that happens to be witnessed by the audience, with no other characters on stage to hear it.w
What is a soliloquy?
This character is a friend of Macbeth, and fellow soldier.
Who is Banquo?
What Duncan means when he says: "So well thy words become thee as thy wounds. They smack of honor both" in scene 2.
What is: Your words and your wounds are proof of how honourable and brave you are? (or something similar)
What Lady Macbeth means by "Come to my woman's breasts, / And take my milk for gall,"
What is, "replace my femininity with poison/bitterness"? (make me more bitter and cruel)
The poetic device is used in scene 3 by one of the witches: "I will drain him dry as hay"
What is a simile?
A form of verse in which every other syllable is stressed (as in “dah-DUM”) and each line contains five stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
This character is the heir to the throne.
Who is Malcolm?
The atmosphere of scene 1, and what it creates for readers.
What is a creepy / foreboding / ominous / suspenseful
What is suspense / engagement
What Macbeth means when he says, "Bring forth men-children only" to Lady Macbeth.
What is, "You should only have sons" ?
Thet 2 poetic devices used in these lines by Lady Macbeth:
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,/ Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark / To cry 'Hold, hold.'
What are personification and metaphor
These are non-spoken texts that appear in a play. They convey a wide variety of information to the actors, designers, and directors
What are stage directions?
This character is a traitor to Scotland, teaming up with its enemy.
Who is the Thane of Cawdor?