Act I
What happens to the Thane of Cawdor and why?
He is executed for being a traitor
What is the signal to tell Macbeth the guards are drugged?
What is a ringing bell?
What did Macbeth see at the banquet table?
What is Banquo's ghost?
Why does Macduff say "O Scotland, O Scotland"?
What is he fears for his country?
The doctor and gentlewoman observe Lady Macbeth doing these 2 strange things
What is sleepwalking and confessing to murder (pretending to wash her hands)?
When a character speaks to the audience without the other characters hearing them.
What is an aside?
"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir."
Who is Macbeth?
What do the witches predict for Macbeth and Banquo? (3 total prophecies)
What is Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland and Banquo's descendants will be King.
What is Macbeth's lie to Banquo about the witches?
What is he never thinks of them?
How Does Macbeth plan to kill Banquo and Fleance? Is it successful?
What is hire two murderers who kill Banquo, but Fleance gets away?
Who is the witch referring to when she says "something wicked this way comes"?
Who is Macbeth?
How does Macbeth die and who kills him?
What is Macduff beheads him?
Macbeth is an example of this type of hero.
What is a Tragic Hero?
"What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won."
Who is King Duncan
This is Lady Macbeth's plan for King Duncan.
What is drugging the guards (or getting the guards drunk so they pass out), so Macbeth can kill the king while he sleeps?
What excuse did Lady Macbeth give for not killing Duncan herself?
What is he looked like her father?
How does Lady Macbeth explain Macbeth's behavior at the banquet?
What is has often had these fits since he was a child
Ross is the bearer of this news to Macduff?
What is Macduff's family has been killed?
He becomes King of Scotland when Macbeth dies?
Who is Malcolm?
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.
What is iambic pentameter?
"...have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?"
Who is Banquo?
The statement "Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair" is a?
What is a Paradox
Who was knocking at the gate after the murder?
Who are Macduff and Lennox?
Who is notably absent from the banquet?
Who is Macduff?
In Act IV, Macduff has sought refuge here and is eager to help this person.
Where is England and to help Malcolm?
Macbeth realizes he has been tricked by the witches and will die when Macduff tells him this piece of information.
What is 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.
What is dramatic irony?
“Gentle my lord, sleek o’er your rugged looks; / Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight.”
Who is Lady Macbeth
This character tells Macbeth:
"Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't."
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Who discovered Duncan was dead?
Who is Macduff?
Hecate (the highest witch) wants the other witches to do this.
What is give Macbeth false hope through security and overconfidence?
Name the 3 apparitions and their prophecies.
What is a severed head - Fear Macduff?
What is a bloodied child - Fear no man born of woman?
What is a child with a crown and a branch - Have no fear until the Great Birnam Wood attack Dunsinane
Macbeth dies in Act V, but not before killing this character.
Who is the Young Siward?
Upon learning of Lady Macbeth's suicide in Act V, 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 Shakespearian play.
What is a soliloquy?
“…all you have done/Hath been but for a wayward son,/Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do,/Loves for his own ends, not for you.”
Who is Hecate?