"No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive/ Our bosom interest. Go, pronounce his present death/ And with his former title greet Macbeth" (1.2.74-76).
Duncan
100
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" (2.1).
Macbeth
100
"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown/ And put a barren scepter in my grip,/ Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,/ No son of mine succeeding" (3.1).
Macbeth
100
When the audience knows more than a character on stage.
Dramatic irony
100
Use your memory to record a line/lines from anywhere in the play
200
"Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be/ What thou art promised. Yet I do fear thy nature;/ It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness/ To catch the nearest way" (1.5).
Lady Macbeth
200
"Infirm of purpose!/ Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead/ Are but as pictures." (2.2)
Lady Macbeth
200
"'Tis safer to be that which we destroy/ Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy" (3.2).
Lady Macbeth
200
When a character talks to himself or herself or is oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts).
Soliloquy
200
What does Duncan have Banquo give to Lady Macbeth as a tribute to their hospitality?
A diamond ring
300
"Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear/ Things that do sound so fair?" (1.3)
Banquo
300
"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece./ Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope/ The Lord's anointed temple and stole hence/ The life o' th' building" (2.3).
Macduff
300
"Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,/Till thou applaud the deed" (3.3).
Macbeth
300
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
Paradox
300
List three animals that are referred to in the play.
Birds, dogs, horses.
400
"We will proceed no further in this business./ He hath honored me of late, and I have bought/ Golden opinions from all sorts of people,/ Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,/ Not cast aside so soon" (1.7).
Macbeth
400
"Let's not consort with them./ To show an unfelt sorrow is an office/ Which the false man does easy" (2.3).
Malcolm
400
"Ay, my good lord. Safe in a ditch he bides,/ With twenty trenched gashes on his head,/ The least a death to nature" (3.4).
Murderer
400
These are elements of this genre...
1) A heroic, larger-than-life character
2) A fatal flaw or mistake
3) Increasing isolation
Elements of tragedy
400
An act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast: Macbeth says his hands will turn the ocean blood-red, Lady says "A little water clears us of this deed."
Juxtaposition
500
"Your Highness' part/ Is to receive our duties, and our duties/ Are to your throne and state children and servants./ Which do but what they should by doing everything/ Safe toward your love and honor" (1.4).
Macbeth
500
"Threescore and ten I can remember well,/ Within the volume of which time I have seen/ Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night/ Hath trifled former knowings" (2.4).
Old Man
500
"Only I say/ Things have been strangely born./ The gracious Duncan/ Was pitied by Macbeth; marry, he was dead./ And the right valiant Banquo walked too late,/ Whom you may say, if 't please you, Fleance killed/ For Fleance fled" (3.6).
Lennox
500
An element-- a type of incident, reference, image-- which recurs throughout a work of literature and contributes to its overall meaning.