Figurative Lang
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Witches
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100

Full of scorpions is my mind.        

Metaphor

100

 How does King Duncan die? 

Macbeth murders him

100

What happens to Macduff’s children and servants?

All are killed

100

How many witches are there? 

3

100

Is Macbeth a tragedy or comedy? 

Tragedy 

200

Lady Luck was with him, smiling cruelly at his enemies. (2 dif answers) 

Oxymoron or personaification

200

Who wipes Duncan’s blood on the servants?

Lady Macbeth

200

Where did Malcolm and Donalbain flee?

Double!! Why did they flee? 

Ireland and England 

Did not want to be harmed 

200

Who is goddess of the witches? 

Hecate 

200

What is a long speech spoken to another character called? 

Monologue

300

Fair is foul and foul is fair.

Daily Double!! Double the points if you can say who says this. 

Oxymoron
Witches

300

Who says the following quote? “What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell swoop?”

Macduff

300

What two things does Macbeth hallucinate? 

Bloody dagger and Banquo's ghost 

300

What did the armored head say to Macbeth? 

Beware Macduff

300

We are told Macbeth is brave, what type of characterization? 

Direct

400

The young snake will become poisonous and threatening,   but now he has no fangs.     

Metaphor

400

What type of character is Macbeth? 

(flat/round, dynamic/static) 

Dynamic and round

400
What is Macbeth's tragic flaw? 

Too much ambition

400

What did the child with a crown and tree say? 

Macbeth will not be defeated until Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill 

400

Lady Macbeth's actions show us that she is ruthless and cruel. What type of characterization? 

Indirect

500

When the hurlyburly’s done / when the battle’s lost and won    

Oxymoron

500

"Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood."

What is Lady Macbeth saying here?  

Answers vary 

500

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?"

What does this passage symbolize? 

Macbeth's conscience 

500

What did the bloody child say? 

No one born from a woman will hurt Macbeth. 

500

A long speech that is meant to represent the character's inner thoughts. 

Soliloquy