Deck 3 Flashcards
1
Q
- What descriptive adjective does Banquo use to describe Macbeth’s reaction to the witches prophesy?
A
Look how our partner’s rapt.
2
Q
- Lady Macbeth says this to Macbeth when he goes back on his decision to kill the king to hurt his pride.
A
When you durst do it, then you were a man.
3
Q
- Macbeth would prefer Banquo to appear in any other shape thn he does at the Banquet. Name one other form that he would prefer him to take.
A
Approach thou like a russian bear, the arm’d rhinoceros, or th’Hyrcan tiger, take any shape but that.
4
Q
- Witches are the first one to mention Macbeth’s name, creates an eerie effect.
A
There to meet with Macbeth.
5
Q
- This interrogative is used by Lady Macbeth to insult Macbeth’s masculinity.
A
Are you a man?
6
Q
- What does Macduff say to Macbeth about how he was born that reveals that the Witches are equivocative?
A
Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped.
7
Q
- Macbeth is compared to the bridegroom of which Roman goddess of War in Act 1?
A
Bellona’s bridegroom.
8
Q
- What descriptive adjective does Banquo use to describe Macbeth’s reaction to the witches prophesy?
A
Signifying nothing.
9
Q
- Imperative sentence; leave the murder of the king to me.
A
You shall put
This night’s great business into my dispatch
10
Q
- Lady Macbeth cannot see Banquo’s ghost in the chair and tells Macbeth what?
A
You look but on a stool.
11
Q
- Killing Duncan may backfire on Macbeth, he uses Hyberbolic language.
A
We but teach bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague the inventor.
12
Q
- Tomorrow, yesterday, day, recorded time – using a rhythm that stretches time out, making it creep.
A
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
13
Q
- What metaphor does he use to suggest that Macbeth shouldn’t give up?
A
They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,
But bear-like, I must fight
14
Q
- The gentlewoman says this to indicate that Lady Macbeth is sleep-walking.
A
Ay but their senses are shut.
15
Q
- What rhyming couplet is used by Macbeth just before Duncan’s death?
A
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
