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Category 1 100
These two characters flee Scotland after the murder of King Duncan.
Category 1 100
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain, the king’s sons?
Category 1 200The character who says: (and give the meaning)
“Glamis thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness would attend it.”
Category 1 200
Who is Lady Macbeth.
Meaning: Upon receiving Macbeth’s letter, she acknowledges his ambition, but fears he may have too kind a disposition to perform the evil deeds necessary to reach the throne.
Category 1 300
Identify the speaker and explain what cultural and gender stereotype is being reinforced.
“Bring forth men children only;
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
Nothing but males.”
Category 1 300
Who is Macbeth?
Macbeth is taken aback by Lady Macbeth’s ruthlessness (masculine trait) and states that because of this, she will have only male children.
Category 1 400
This character is the gate keeper for Macbeth’s castle. What purpose does this character serve?
Category 1 400
Who is the Porter? He provides comic relief
Category 1 500
The character who says,
“Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”
And explain the meaning!!
Category 1 500
Who is the Third Witch?
She tells Banquo that he won’t be King, but his sons will.
Category 2 100
Macbeth’s action on the battlefield at the beginning of the play which provides the audience/reader with a hint of his barbaric nature and hence foreshadows the subsequent murders.
Category 2 100
What is…
Macbeth’s killing of Macdonwald by unseaming him “from nave to th’ chops” and cutting off his head.
Category 2 200
After killing Duncan, Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he thought he heard a voice tell him that he murdered __________ and then proceeds to provide metaphors, such as “sore labor’s bath” to describe it.
Category 2 200
What is Sleep?
Category 2 300
Explain the significance of water for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth right after the murder of Duncan. What contrasting views are expressed?
Category 2 300
What is
Lady Macbeth thinks “a little water can clear us of this deed” while Macbeth feels that no amount of water can wash away his guilt; instead, he will contaminate “Neptune’s ocean” making the green waters red.
Category 2 400
What appears to be the reason for Malcolm and Donalbain’s hasty retreat? What is the reality?
(Appearance versus Reality)
Category 2 400
What is…Appearance: They killed their father.
Reality: They feared they would be killed next.
Category 2 500
Macbeth compares himself to this Roman tyrant who raped a woman.
Category 2 500
Who is Tarquin?
Category 3 100
Macbeth’s hallucination and the numerous mentions of insomnia are examples of this motif.
Category 3 100
What is sickness and health.
Category 3 200
The paradox uttered by the witches which establishes the theme of the play.
Category 3 200
What is “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
Category 3 300
What is the purpose of clothing motifs used through out the play?
Category 3 300
What is:
They reinforce the theme that appearances can be deceiving since often times people are judged by clothing.
Category 3 400
The motif that is established by the following lines:
“ And Duncan’s horses- a thing most strange and certain/Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,/Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,/Contending ‘gainst obedience, as they would make/War with mankind.”
Category 3 400
What is
Unnatural events in nature mirroring evil deeds?
Category 3 500
The five motifs we have discussed and found examples of so far in Acts I and II.
Category 3 500
1. Blood Motif
2. Clothing Motif
3. Light and Darkness
4. Sickness and Health
5. Unnatural events in nature mirroring human evil.
Category 4 100
This term refers to a hero’s tragic flaw.
Category 4 100
What is hamartia?
Category 4 200
What two literary devices does Shakespeare employ in the following lines:
“Come, you spirits/ that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here/And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full/ Of direst cruelty.”
Category 4 200
• What are Apostrophe and Personfication.
Category 4 300
The reference to Bellona’s bridegroom in Act I is an example of this literary device. (Also, explain the signficiance.)
Category 4 300
What is mythological allusion?
Since Bellona is the goddess of war, Macbeth is called her bridegroom. However, this allusion also underscores Lady Macbeth’s power and influence over her husband.
Category 4 400
The literary device evident in King Duncan’s words:
“This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses.”
Category 4 400
What is situational irony.
(It is ironic that he would feel such pleasure at the precise location of his death.)
An example of dramatic irony from Acts I or II.
Category 4 500
Answers may vary.
When the King proclaims Macbeth Thane of Cawdor, the audience becomes aware of this before Macbeth does.
Category 4 500
Category 5 100
Renaissance poets: Authors of “The Passionate Shephard to His Love” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shephard”
Category 5 100
Who are Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh?
Category 5 200
The literary tradition of poetry, Carpe diem, means…
Category 5 200
What is seize the day!
Category 5 300
For which king did Shakespeare write and do a production of Macbeth?
Category 5 300
Who is James the I.
Category 5 400
How did Elizabeth I influence writing during the Renaissance?
Category 5 400
Due to the political stability that took place during her reign and the defeat of the Spanish Armada, creativity flourished and writers were inspired by her and wrote tributes and poems praising her.
Category 5 500
The problem with the shepherd’s proposition in “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.”
Category 5 500
What is…
He promises that which is unattainable to him due to his status as a shepherd. He also promises superficial things that will not last.