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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.