Macbeth
People that Macbeth murders.
Who are Duncan, 2 guards, and Banquo.
When Duncan is found dead, Lady Macbeth acts like this.
What is shocked? What is she acts like the "Innocent flower" and faints to further act the part?
Speaker of the following lines: "O, yet I do repent me of my fury/ That I did kill them."
Who is Macbeth?
A speech one character gives to another character on stage.
What is a monologue?
Due to the fact that they flee right after Duncan’s murder, these two people are considered suspects.
Who is Malcolm and Donalbain?
Lady Macbeth tells her husband to do this to his hands after committing the murder.
What is wash his hands?
a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent.
What is double entendre?
Safely escapes the murderers' ambush.
Who is Fleance?
Thoughts spoken aloud by a character when he/she is alone, or thinks he/she is alone
What is a soliloquy?
Macbeth's only reason for wanting to kill Duncan.
What is ambition?
When talking about the witches' prophecies in Act 3, Scene 1, Macbeth says, "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..." This means:
What is Macbeth is worried that his crown will be taken from him by Banquo's heirs and/or anoyone else in line for the throne since he has no sons?
This occurs when a speaker or writer says one thing but actually means the opposite.
What is verbal irony?
This is a 10-syllable line divided into 5 iambic feet (one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable). This is the basic rhythm of Shakespeare’s verse.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
The meaning of Macbeth's lines, "I am in blood/ Stepped in so far that should I wade no more,/ Returning were as tedious as go o'er" in Act 3, Scene 4?
What is he has committed so much murder already, he may as well keep murdering? What is he can't turn back now?
What is the literary device used when Macduff describes Lady Macbeth as "O gentle lady"?
What is dramatic irony?
This is an example of this technique, which comes at the end of a speech: "Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell/That summons thee to heaven or to hell."
What is a rhyming couplet?
Macbeth says, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather/The multitudinous seas incarnadine/Making the green one red.” This is revealed in this soliloquy.
What is Macbeth's guilty conscience and deteriorating mental state?