Macbeth Act I
The Thane of Glamis
Who is Macbeth?
"That my keen knife see not the wound it makes"?
What is personification?
"Double, double, toil and trouble"
Who are the Weird Sisters?
A long speech delivered to another character.
What is a monologue?
Commits suicide off-stage.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Duncan
Who is King of Scotland?
"Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight / With a new Gorgon."
What is allusion?
"I would, while it was smiling in my face, / ...dash'd the brains out"
Who is Lady Macbeth?
When the audience knows more information than the character.
What is dramatic irony?
Becomes king at the end of the play.
Who is Malcolm?
The islands west of Scotland and Ireland.
What are the Hebrides?
"For brave Macbeth–well he deserves that name– disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valor’s minion carved out his passage."
What is a simile?
"For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind"
Who is Macbeth?
A character speaks his or her thoughts alone on stage in a long speech.
The English lord who leads the English army into Scotland.
Who is Siward?
"lesser than Macbeth, and greater"
Who is Banquo?
"cabin'd, cribb'd, confined"
What is alliteration?
"He shall spurn fate, scorn death"
Who is Hecate?
A character that contrasts the virtues or vices of another character.
What is a foil?
Definition of "raze".
What is "to obliterate"?
What the weird sister took from the sailor?
What is a thumb?
"What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”
What is rhetorical question?
"Alas, poor country, / almost afraid to know itself! It cannot / Be call'd our mother, but our grave."
Who is Ross?
An indication of something that will happen in the future, often used as a literary device to hint at or allude to future plot developments
What is foreshadowing?
An allusion to committing suicide instead of being captured on the battlefield.
What is "the Roman fool"?