Macbeth - English Exam

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Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 1

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“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”

Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7

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“What beast was’t then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and, to be more than what you were, you would be so much more than a man!”

King Duncan, Act 1 Scene 4

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“THere’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face: he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.”

Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7

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“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.”

Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5

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“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements.”

Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7

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“If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly: if the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch with his surcease success.”

Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 1

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“To be thus is nothing; but to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared.”

Lady Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2

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“What’s done is done.”

Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2

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“Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep,’ the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath.”

Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 4

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“I am in blood, stepp’d in so far that I should wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.”

Lady Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 1

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“Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One; two: why, then ‘tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie my lord, fie! A soldier and afeared? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power into account? Yet who would have thoughts the old man to have had so much blood in him!”

Malcolm, Act 4 Scene 3

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“Macduff, this noble passion, child of integrity, hath from my sould wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts, to they good truth and honour.”

Witches, Act 1 Scene 3

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“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”

Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 1

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“When first they put the name of king upon me, and bade them speak to him; then prophet-like they hail’d him father to a line of kings: upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren sceptre in my gripe.”

Banquo, Act 3 Scene 1

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“Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and, I fear, thou play’dst most foully for’t.”

The Porter, Act 2 Scene 3

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“Who’s there, i’th’ other devil’s name? Faith, here’s an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God’s sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come in, equivocator.”

Macduff, Act 4 Scene 3

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“But I must also feel it as a man. I cannot remember such things were that were most precious to me. Did heaven look on and would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, they were all struck for thee!”

Civil war

What is the cause of the war at the beginning of the play?

1. Thane of Glamis

2. Thane of Cawdor

3. King thereafter

What titles do the witches reference when Macbeth first meets them?

1. You will be lesser than Macbeth, but much greater

2. You won’t be as happy, but much happier

3. You will father kings, but you will not be one

What three prophecies did the witches reveal for Banquo?

Tragedy

a serious play in which the hero becomes engaged in a conflict, experiences great suffering, and is finally defeated and dies

Tragic hero

a hero of noble nature is brought down as a result of a tragic flaw

Hamartia

a tragic flaw that leads to a character’s downfall

Dramatic irony

words or actions of a character which carry a meaning unknown to themself but understood by the audience

Paradox

a statement that seems contradictory or absurd and yet is true

ex. “What’s fair is foul, and what’s foul is fair”

Imagery

conveys word pictures and evokes an imaginative, emotional response, as well as providing a vivid, specific description.

ex. blood, darkness

Soliloquy

a speech of a character in a play or other composition delivered while the speaker is alone. the purpose is to make the audience aware of the character’s thoughts or to give information concerning other participants in the action

ex. Macbeth’s soliloquy as he hallucinates a dagger before killing King Duncan

Aside

a remark made by a character intended to be heard by the audience but not the other characters on stage

Retributive/Poetic Justice

an ideal situation in which good is rewarded and evil is punished

ex. Macbeth’s death, order being restored to Scotland

Pun

a play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings

Comic/Dramatic Belief

a humorous episode or scene in a serious story or tragedy, the effect is to provide relief from tension and to heighten the serious elements of the rest of the drama (calm before the storm)

ex. the extremely drunk Porter rambling endlessly before opening the door

Symbolism

the use of objects or actions to suggest ideas or emotions

ex. Macduff’s son being referred to as an bird by his mother (growing, flourishing) and an egg by the murderer (insignificant, annoying)

Foils

characters that oppose each other

ex. Macbeth and Macduff

Regicide

the killing of a king or queen

Blank verse

non-rhyming lines of iambic pentameter. ten syllables (every second syllable stressed)

Verse couplets

pairs of rhyming lines

Prose

the ordinary form of spoken or written language

Malcolm

In Act 1, Scene 4, King Duncan announces his heir to the throne. Who is it?

Ireland and England

Where do Malcolm and Donalbain flee after their father’s death?

1. An owl killed a falcon

2. The horses ate each other

3. The stars could not be seen

Name three strange things that happened the night Duncan was killed.