Macbeth Final Review

What is a rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses some absent person or thing.

Honest, meek leader who is deceived by 2 of his thanes and is murdered

This Monarch successfully united Scotland and England under one crown in 1603.

The porter talks about drinking and urination.

Macduff decapitates Macbeth at the end of the play.

The witches warn Macbeth about this character

Literary convention when the audience knows more than the characters in the play

WHO SAYS: "Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from her,”

Macduff was "not of woman born" because he was adopted.

Prophesized not to be the future King of Scotland but have a long line of descendants

Provides comic relief after Duncan’s murder

Early permanent theaters included all of the following features, except…

Lady Macbeth fails to kill the king because he looks like her father.

WHO SAYS: “Wash your hands, put on your nightgown, look not so pale!”

What object does Macbeth imagine seeing in front of him?

WHO SAYS: “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”

The climax of the play occurs in Act One.

WHO SAYS: “When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”

Was killed because his children were predicted to be kings

A formerly loyal soldier who commits atrocities against Scotland and his comrades

WHO SAYS: “Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear.”

Macduff is with Macbeth when he first meets the witches.

Scottish nobleman whose son is maliciously murdered on stage

Cruel & conniving mastermind, who later succumbs to the horror of reality and dies

Literature became more widely available during the Renaissance era primarily due to

An observant nobleman and messenger who appears in every act

WHO SAYS: “My thanes and kinsman, henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland in such an honor named.”

WHO SAYS: “Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets”

Crowned King after Macbeth

WHO SAYS: “Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”

The first permanent theaters, such as the Globe and the Swan, were built…

Questions her husband’s absence before she is killed

Remark a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by other characters on stage

Lady Macduff is upset about her husband's absence.

After he learns of his family’s death, Macduff refuses to fight.

Innocent bystander who is left defenseless when her husband leaves Scotland

Commits suicide

King Duncan was a compassionate and well-liked ruler.

Macbeth always holds Banquo in high esteem.

Named heir to the throne of Scotland, but later suspected of his father’s murder

Begins the play as a celebrated soldier but soon changes

Mysterious harbingers of fate who influence the demise of the central character

All of the following statements about Elizabeth I are true except…

Trusted by Duncan but proves to be a traitor. Loses title

Character’s survival disappoints Macbeth

The witches are slaughtered by Hecate.

Clear-headed, morally upright nobleman who is a casualty of another man’s greed

During Queen Elizabeth’s 45-year reign (from 1558-1603), England experienced all but which of the following?

WHO SAYS: “Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly.”

. Macbeth is considered William Shakespeare’s shortest _________________.

What does the bell symbolize in Act II of the play?

Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement that when investigated may prove to be well-founded or true

Banquo escapes from the three murderers while Fleance is murdered.

Long, usually serious speech in which a character, alone on stage, reveals his/her own thoughts

WHO SAYS: “You lack the season of all natures, sleep.”

Duncan’s son who flees to Ireland