Act 1
The three titles given to Macbeth by the witches: the Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and ____________?
What is king?
This is what Macbeth hallucinates in the air before killing Duncan.
What is a dagger?
The reason Macbeth fears Banquo.
What is that he is noble/wise, and his descendants are prophesied to be kings?
The first apparition tells Macbeth to beware this person.
Who is Macduff (or the Thane of Fife)?
“Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
The repeated ending sounds in these lines create what literary device?
What is rhyme?
She said Macbeth is "too full o' th' milk of human kindness".
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Lady Macbeth says she would have killed Duncan herself if he hadn't resembled this person.
Who is her father?
Macbeth hires these people to kill Banquo and Fleance
Who are "the murderers"?
The appearance of the first apparition that appears to Macbeth.
What is an armed head?
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?”
This quote uses a reference to a Roman god to describe the vastness of the ocean. What literary device is being used?
What is allusion?
This character receives the prophecy from the witches that his desendents will become king.
Who is Banquo?
These two characters flee the country because they fear for their lives.
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain?
The character who sees the ghost of Banquo at the banquet.
Who is Macbeth?
The third apparition tells Macbeth he will not be defeated until this moves.
What is the forest (Birnam Wood moving to Dunsinane)?
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?”
Macbeth speaks his thoughts aloud while alone on stage, revealing his inner conflict. What literary device is this?
What is a soliloquy?
This character is named the Prince of Cumberland and heir to the throne.
Who is Malcolm?
The Porter acts as comedic relief, pretending to guard the gate of hell. He offers this kind of joke.
What is a knock-knock joke?
This character does not attend the banquet, causing Macbeth to fear him.
Who is Macduff?
This apparition tells Macbeth that no man born of woman shall harm him.
What is the second apparition (bloody child)?
“So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels…”
King Duncan is described as kind and virtuous, emphasizing Macbeth’s darker qualities by contrast. What literary device does this demonstrate?
What is a foil?
Lady Macbeth asks the spirits to do this to her to prepare for the murder.
What is "unsex" her?
The person who first discovers Duncan's body.
Who is Macduff?
To what country has Macduff fled?
What is England?
This character tells Macduff that his family has been killed.
Who is Ross?
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage…”
Macbeth compares life to a shadow and an actor without using “like” or “as.” What literary device is being used?
What is a metaphor?