Macbeth Test

Plight

difficult or adverse situation

Disdaining

intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy

Corporeal

relating to a physical, material body; tangible and palpable

Prologues

introductory remarks/action in speech, play or literary work

Trifles

not significant

Combustible

capable of burning

Obscure

difficult to see; vague

Posterity

future generations, all descendants of a person

Bestowed

granted or gave

Rancor

bitter deep seated ill will; enmity

Buffeted

struck repeatedly; battered

Cloister

to seclude of confine

Mirth

gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter

Spurn

to reject or refuse with hostility

Rue

to be sorry for, to regret

Confound

to cause one to become confused

Searing

causing to wither or dry up or to become scorched

Desolate

deserted, without inhabitants

Avarice

greed for wealth

Vanquished

conquered, overpowered

\__ tells the king about Macbeth's bravery in battle.

The Captain

King Duncan decides to make Macbeth Thane of Cawdor because __.

Macbeth fought heroically for the king

\__ is named Prince of Cumberland and heir to the throne.

Malcolm

\__ tells his brother that he fears the "daggers in men's smiles."

Donalbain

Act II takes place in __.

Macbeth's castle

The dagger that Macbeth sees leading him into Duncan's room is __.

part of a hallucination

Duncan's guards are murdered by __.

Macbeth

Macbeth convinces the two murderers to kill Banquo by telling them that __.

Banquo had previously harmed them

\__ didn't go to the banquet which makes Macbeth worry about a plan against him.

Macduff

When Macbeth says that, "Blood will have blood," he means that __.

he will have to keep killing more people

\__ tells Macbeth to beware of Macduff.

the armed head

\__ says that no man born of woman will hurt Macbeth.

the bloody child

\__ says that Macbeth won't be defeated until Birnam forest marches to Macbeth's castle.

the child with a crown and a tree branch

Malcolm pretends he's too evil to become king in order to __.

find out if Macduff is loyal

When Lady Macbeth says, "Out, damned spot!", the "damned spot" she refers to is __.

blood

Macbeth's reaction to his wife's death shows that he __.

thinks life is a meaningless path to death

Macbeth finally realizes that the witches and apparitions __.

deceived him with ambiguous messages

paradox

a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth

imagery

when the author uses description to paint a picture in a reader's head

metaphor

a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared

allusion

a reference to something (i.e. mythology, another literary work)
assumed known

dramatic irony

when something is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in a play

simile

a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, using like or as

motif

a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work

personification

giving human qualities to non- human things

symbol

An object, word, phrase, or image that is used to represent an abstract concept

"When the battle's lost and won" is an example of:

paradox

"Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell" is an example of:

personification

"The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapped in proof," is an example of:

allusion

"We are tossed about this way and that, as if in a storm at sea" is an example of:

simile

"Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale" is an example of:

paradox

King of Scotland as the play begins

Duncan

angry that the witches did not include her, too

Hecate

royal son who went to Ireland

Donalbain

commits murder of king

Macbeth

could not wash blood off hands

Lady Macbeth

went to England when Macbeth became king

Malcolm

returns to banquet as ghost

Banquo

tells Macduff about the death of his family

Ross

worried that his son might have died a coward

Siward

kills Macbeth

Macduff

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

witches

"Yet I Do fear thy nature, it is too full o' the milk of human kindness."

Lady Macbeth

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't"

lady Macbeth

"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly."

Macbeth

"That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face!"

Macduff

"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"

Lady Macbeth

"The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell."

Macbeth

"Had he not resembled my father as he slept I had done't"

Lady Macbeth

"Here's a knocking, indeed!"

Porter

"O horror! O horror! Tongue, nor heart, cannot conceive nor name thee!"

Macduff

"Why do we hold our tongues, that most may claim this argument for ours?"

Malcolm

" Thou canst not say I did it: never shake thy gory locks at me."

Macbeth

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

witches

"When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors."

Lady Macduff

"What's done cannot be undone."

Lady Macbeth