English Macbeth

Question 1

What is Macbeth said to become overtime by each witch?

Scene 1

Answer 1

First ,Thane of Glamis
Second, Thane of Cawdor
Third, King here after

Question 2

What is Banquo promised by the witches?

Answer 2

‘Thout shall get kings’

Question 3

What was Lady Macbeths plan?

Answer 3

Get the kings guard drunk and let Macbeth commite the murder in Duncan

Question 4

Act 1 scene 7 macbeth, ambition, metaphor

Answer 4

‘We fail?But screw your courage to sticking the place,And we’ll not fail’

Question 5

Act 1 scene 5 Lady Macbeth, ambition visual ,imagery

Answer 5

‘Come you spirits…Unsex me here…make thick my blood’

Question 6

Act 1 scene 5 lady macbeth ,ambition ,visual imagery 2

Answer 6

‘yet do I fear thy nature;it is to full o’ ‘th milk of human kindness’

Question 7

Act 1 scene 3 Macbeth, Fate or free will

Answer 7

‘If chance will have me king,why chance may crown me,without my stir

Question 8

Act 1 Scene 1 Witches,Fate or free will, paradox

Answer 8

‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’

Question 9

Act 2 Scene 2 Lady Macbeth,guilt,Visual Imagery,Personification

Answer 9

‘great neptune’s Ocean’Could wash away Lady Macbeths Guilt

Question 10

Act 3 Scene 3 Macbeth,Power,Sybolism

Answer 10

‘Fruitless crown’

Question 11

Act 1 Scene 7 Macbeth,Metaphor

Answer 11

‘I have no spur.To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on t’other.’

Question 12

Theme in Macbeth

Answer 12

• fate or free will
• Ambition
• Power
• Versions of reality
• Gender
• The Supernatural
• Violence
• Time

Question 13

Paradox

Answer 13

-A situation,person,or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities
-Macbeth is ambitious,but too gentle.
They are both opposite qualities that lead to his downfall.

Question 14

Simile and Imagery

Answer 14

New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold. But with the aid of use.

Question 15

Metaphor

Answer 15

‘Whence is that knocking? How is’t with me, when every noise appalls me? What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.’

Question 16

personification

Answer 16

“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/That struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”

“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/That struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”

Question 17

Rhetorical Question
Symbolism of guilt and violence
Extended conceit of the dagger
Imperative Voice show the eager and acceptance of evil motive

Answer 17

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee”

Question 18

Foreshadowing

Answer 18

All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter” - Third Witch (Act I Scene III)

Question 19

Metaphor

Macbeth (Act I Scene VII)

Answer 19

” I have no spur. To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambirtion which o’erleaps itself and falls on t’other

Question 20

Apostrophe

Answer 20

An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified).