| What country was Duncan king of? | Scotland |
| Why did Macbeth not kill Banquo himself? | they had mutual friends he needed to stay on good terms with |
| ‘If good, why do I yield to that suggestion / whose horrid image doth unfix my hair…” | Macbeth to himself |
| What country was Duncan fighting a war with? | Norway |
| What three literary devices apply to “fair is fowl and fowl is fair”? | Alliteration, Chiasmus, Paradox |
| Who was the first to discover the body of the deceased king? | Macduff |
| Why were the murderers so willing to kill Banquo? | Macbeth told them that Banquo was the reason for their poverty, and Macbeth paid them well. |
| Where did Donalbaine flee? | Ireland |
| Macbeth takes over the plot to reign that his wife once prodded him to do when he fails to include her in what plot? | killing Banquo |
| What was Macbeth’s original title? | Thane of Glamis |
| Who accuses whom of paying “most foully for it” and what does “it” refer to? | Banquo insinuates that Macbeth has come to “it”, or the crown, by nefarious means (murder of the king). |
| What signs of nature reflected a world out of order? | the falcon was eaten by the owl, the horses were eating each other, looked like night during daytime |
| “What can the devil speak true?” | Banquo to Macbeth (and Ross) (after him becoming thane, like the withes (devil) prophecy (speak) came true) |
| What does the bloody child (apparition) represent? | Macduff torn from his mother’s womb. |
| What was the name of Macbeth’s castle? | Inverness |
| What characters suspect that Macbeth murdered Duncan? | Malcolm, Banquo, Macduff |
| What do Banquo and Macbeth have in common soon after the witch’s predictions? | They both have trouble sleeping due to nightmares. |
| “Naught’s had, all’s spent, /where out desire is got without content…” | Lady Macbeth to herself |
| What is ironic about the title Macbeth acquired? | The Thane of Cawdor was killed for committing treason which is what eventually happens to Macbeth |
| Who had an early morning appointment to see Duncan the day he was found dead? | Macduff and Lennox |
| “That which should accompany old age, /as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, /I must not look to have,” | Macbeth to himself |
| “O Scotland Scotland! Fit to govern. No, not to live,” | Macduff to Malcolm |
| Macbeth talks about his barren scepter, what does that represent? | he can’t have kids |
| What were the three apparitions? | 1. the Armed Head (helmet) 2. the Bloody Child, 3. the Child Crowned, with a tree in his hand |
| What did the Armed Head prophesize? | Beware Macduff! Beware the Thane of Fife! |
| What did the Bloody Child prophesize? | no one born of woman can harm Macbeth |
| What did the Child Crowned prophesize? | Macbeth won’t be defeated until Birnam Wood travels to Dunsinane Hill |
| What was Macbeth’s mistake when he killed Duncan? | Macbeth brought the daggers back to the room instead of planting them on the guards |
| Iambic Pentameter | a pattern of rythm that has five unstressed syllables, each followed by a stressed syllable |
| Repetition | the use of words and phrases more than once to emphasize ideas |
| Parallelism | the repetition of gramatical structures to express ideas that are related or of equal importance |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed lines if iambic pentameter |
| Soliloquy | a speech given by a character alone on stage, used to reveal his or her private thoughts or feelings |
| anon | soon |
| durst | dared |
| ere | before |
| fly | flee, run away |
| hark | listen |
| hie | hurry |
| issue | child, offspring |
| naught | nothing |
| nigh | near |
| perchance | maybe |
| prithee | please |
| thence | there |
| thine | your, yours |
| thither | there |
| twixt | between |
| whence | where |
| wherefore | why |
| whither | where |
| withal | also |
| Rhetorical Questions | the use of questions that require no answer to make the speaker’s rightness seem self evident |
| Tragedy | drama in which a series of actions leads to the downfall of the main character |
| Tragic Hero | the main character of a tragedy |
| Tragic Flaw | an error in judgement or a character defect that ultimately leads to his or her downfall |
| Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows something that a character doesn’t |
| Aside | a character’s remark, either to the audience or to another character, that no one else on stage is supposed to hear |
Macbeth Jeopardy
August 23, 2019