Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
The Witches
Other Characters
Vocabulary
100

They are hired by Macbeth.

Who are the Three Murderers?

100

Lady Macbeth's role in helping her husband kill Duncan 

What is getting the guards drunk and planting the bloody daggers on them?

100

The two people the witches share prophecies with.

Who are Macbeth and Banquo?

100

Why is Macduff able to harm Macbeth if no man born of a woman could?

What is he was prematurely removed from his mother's womb?

100

To place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)

What is juxtapose?

200

Macbeth sees this floating in the air before he kills Duncan.

What is a bloody dagger?

200

How Lady Macbeth dies.

What is suicide?

200
The witches tell him that his sons will become Kings.

Who is Banquo?

200
Banquo's son who escaped the murderers.

Who is Fleance?

200

Made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment

What is impromptu?
300

Macbeth sees the ghost of this person at the feast.

Who is Banquo?

300

Lady Macbeth does this because of the guilt she feels over the killing her husband has done.

What is sleepwalking?

300

How the Witches greet Macbeth when they first meet.

What is Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and King?

300

Macbeth is given the crown instead of Duncan's sons because of this.

What is people suspect them of paying the guards to kill their father since they had fled?

300

A person or thing having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases

What is a paradox?

400

He ultimately kills Macbeth.

Who is Macduff?

400

How Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill the king.

What is questioning his manhood and ambition? What is making a plan for him to follow?

400

How the prophecy "Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him" is undone.

What is the soldiers cut down branches and march with them in front of them to conceal their numbers?
400

She is upset that her husband left her and her children when he fled the country.

Who is Lady Macduff?

400

Occurring or likely to occur soon



What is impending?

500

The title Duncan gives Macbeth after the battle in Act 1. 

What is Thane of Cawdor?
500

Lady Macbeth's request for the "spirits" as they plan to kill Duncan.

What is make her more masculine?

500

The prophecy shared by the crowned child holding a tree. 

What is "that he will not be defeated until the trees of Birnam Wood march against him?"

500

Duncan's sons who flee to England and Ireland.

Who are Malcolm and Donalbain?
500

Unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion

What is adamant?