Act I
This character tells Macbeth to look like a flower but be the snake under it.
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth sees this vision before he kills King Duncan.
What is a bloody dagger?
What did Macbeth see at the banquet table?
What is Banquo's ghost?
Who says, “Macbeth will seem as pure as snow...being compared with my confineless harms!”
Who is Malcolm?
The doctor and gentlewoman observe Lady Macbeth doing and saying this.
What is sleepwalking and confessing to murder (pretending to wash her hands)?
When a character speaks briefly to the audience without the other characters hearing them.
What is an aside?
“Out damned spot, out!”
Who is Lady Macbeth?
This person gives King Duncan the first report of the battle
What is the signal to tell Macbeth the guards are drugged?
What is a bell ringing?
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?
“To be thus (king) is nothing, but to be safely thus (king)”
Macbeth
THE DAILY DOUBLE!!!
King Duncan gives Malcolm this title as the new heir to the Scottish throne.
What is Macbeth's lie to Banquo about the witches?
What is he never thinks of them?
How does Lady Macbeth explain Macbeth's behavior at the banquet?
What is has often had these fits since he was a child
This character is the bearer of bad news to Macduff.
Ross
He becomes King of Scotland when Macbeth dies?
Who is Malcolm?
a repeated pattern such as an image, sound, word, or symbol that comes back again and again within a particular story.
Examples: doubles, sleep, birds
What is a motif?
“The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us.
Who is Banquo?
Who is Scotland battling in Act 1?
Norway (and rebel lords led by Macdonwald)
Who discovered Duncan was dead?
Macduff
Other than Banquo, 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 after his mother had passed away during child birth.
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?
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles.”
Who is Donalbain?
What do the witches predict for Macbeth and Banquo? (6 total prophecies)
Glamis, Cawdor, King
Not Greater, Not Happier, Son's will be kings
What excuse did Lady Macbeth give for not killing Duncan herself?
What is he looked like her father?
Why is Hecate mad at the witches, and what does she want them to do to Macbeth
(Include the literary term)
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?
“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him.”
Who is Crowned Child Holding a Tree Apparition (3rd Apparition - Malcolm)?