Lungu Macbeth Test study guide

Paradox

A statement that seems contradictory on the surface but reveals a deeper truth.

Equivocation

Using ambiguous or double-meaning language to conceal the truth or mislead.

Implied Stage Direction

Dialogue that indicates an actor’s physical action or reaction without formal stage brackets.

Comic Relief

A humorous scene or character inserted to relieve emotional tension after a tragic event.

Great Chain of Being

The belief in a strict divine hierarchy.

(God > Angels > Kings > Nobles > Commoners > Animals)

Aside

Spoken to audience or self and unheard by others.

Soliloquy

A character expressing inner thoughts alone.

Defiant

Openly resistant, bold, ready to challenge or fight.

(Describes Mabeth fighting Macduff at the end)

Resigned

Accepting an unpleasant or inevitable fate without further resistance.

Hysterical

Expressing wild, uncontrolled emotion or extreme agitation.

Solemn

Deeply serious, formal, dignified, or sincere.

Regicide

The deliberate killing of a king.

Issue

Offspring, children, or direct descendants.

Avaricious

Exceptionally greedy for money or wealth

(Used by Malcom when testing Macduff)

Voluptuousness

Excessive indulgence in luxury, sensual, or physical pleasures.

(Lust)

Intemperance

Lack of self-restraint or moderation in passion, desire, or behavior.

Hoodwink

To deceive, trick, or blind someone to the truth.

“No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive / Our bosom interest. Go, pronounce his present death, / And with his former title greet Macbeth.”

King Duncan 1.2

“We fail? / But screw your courage to the sticking place / And we’ll not fail.”

Lady Macbeth 1.7

“Who’s there, i’ th’ name of Beelzebub? Here’s a farmer that hanged himself on th’ expectation of plenty”

The Porter 2.3

“Thou hast it now -King, Cawdor, Glamis, all / As the Weïrd Women promised, and I fear / Thou played’st most foully for ‘t.”

Banquo 3.1

“It is an accustomed action with her to seem thus washing her hands. I have known her to continue in this a quarter of an hour.”

Gentlewoman 5.1

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

Three Witches 1.1

“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.”

Lady Macbeth 1.5

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand?"

Macbeth 2.1

“There's daggers in men's smiles; the near blood, / The nearer bloody.”

Donaldbain 2.3

“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!"

Macbeth 3.2

“Double, double toil and trouble; / Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Three Witches 4.1

“Macduff was from his mother's womb / untimely ripped”

Macduff 5.8

“Out damned spot! out I say!-One: two: why, then, tis' time to do 't."

Lady Macbeth 5.1

"My thanes and kinsmen, / Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland / In such an honor named."

Malcom 5.8

“What, all my pretty chickens and their dam / At one fell swoop?”

Macduff 4.3