Macbeth

Question 1

Anagnorisis

Answer 1

Character realising their downfall. E.g LM killing herself, Birman woods

Question 2

Catharsis

Answer 2

Release of emotions. E.g blood thirsty rampage, pity for his ambition

Question 3

My ___ heart knocks at my ___

Answer 3

Act 1 Sc 3 Macbeth “My seated heart knocks at my ribs”

Question 4

“Fair is ___ and ___ is fair”

Answer 4

A1 S1 Witches: “Fair is foul and foul is fair

Question 5

“When the battle is ___ and ___”

Answer 5

A1 S1 Witches “When the battle is lost and won”

Question 6

“For ___ Macbeth - well he deserves that name - ___ fortune, with his banished steel, which smoked with bloody ___.”

Answer 6

A1 S2 Captain “For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name - disdaining fortune, with his banished steel, which smoked with bloody execution.

Question 7

“So ___ and ___ a day I have not seen”

Answer 7

A1 S3 Macbeth “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”

Question 8

“___ of darkness tell us ___”

Answer 8

A1 S3 Banquo: “instruments of darkness tell us truths”

Question 9

“___ you spirits that ___ on ___ thoughts, unsex me here”

Answer 9

A1 S5: Lady Macbeth: “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts.”

Question 10

“If ___ may have me king, why, chance may crown me”

Answer 10

A1 S3: Macbeth: “If chance may have me king, why, chance may crown me”

Question 11

” Yet do I fear thy ___; it is too full o’ the milk of ___ kindness”

Answer 11

A1 S5 Lady Macbeth: “yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of kindess”

Question 12

“Let ___ hide your fires not my black and ___ desires

Answer 12

A1 S4 Macbeth: “Let stars hide your fires not my black and deep desires” (heroic couplet) (metaphor) (Stars, GCOB) (euphaism for regicide)

Question 13

“Look like the ___ flower but be the ___ under’t”

Answer 13

A1 S5 Lady Macbeth: “Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”

Question 14

“This castle has a ___ seat the air ___ and sweet recommend itself onto our ___ senses “

Answer 14

A1 S6 Duncan: “This castle has a Pleasant seat the air nimbly and sweet recommend itself onto our gentle senses “

Question 15

I have no ___ to prick the sides of my ___ but only ___ ambition which o’erleaps itself and ___ onto the th’other

Answer 15

A1 S7 Macbeth “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls onto the th’other”

Question 16

Is this a ___ See before me? the ___ toward my hand?

Answer 16

A2 S1: Is this a dagger I see before me? The handle toward my hand?

Question 17

Will all great ___ ocean wash this blood ___ from my hand?

Answer 17

A2 S2: Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hands? (Macbeth.)

Question 18

There are ___ in men’s smiles

Answer 18

“There are daggers in men’s smiles” (donalbain)

Question 19

What is regicide?

Answer 19

Killing a king (Duncan)

Question 20

“Full of ____ is my mind dear wife”

Answer 20

A3 S2 Macbeth: “Full of scorpions is my mind dear wife”

Question 21

A3 S1 Banquo “and I ___ thou has ___ most foully for it”

Answer 21

A3 S1 Banquo “and I fear thou has played most foully for it”

Question 22

“we have ___ the snake but not ___ it”

Answer 22

A3 S2 Macbeth: “we have scorched the snake but not killed it”

Question 23

“I am ___ ___ ___. Bound in ___ doubts and fears”

Answer 23

A3 S4: Macbeth “I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d. Bound in saucy doubts and fears”

Question 24

“Thou canst not say I did it; never ___ thy gory ___ at me!”

Answer 24

A3 S4: “Thou canst not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me!”

Question 25

“By the ___ of my thumbs, something ___ this way comes.”

Answer 25

A4 S1 Witches “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”

Question 26

“Angels are ___ though ___ fell”

Answer 26

A4 S3 Malcom “Angels are bright though brightest fell”

Question 27

“Out ___ spot, Out I say! Hell is ___”

Answer 27

A5 S1 LM “Out damned spot, Out I say! Hell is murky”

Question 27

“Here is the smell of ___ still; all the perfumes of ___ would not ___ this little hand”

Answer 27

A5 S1 LM : “Here is the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia would not sweeten this little hand”

Question 27

Malcom A5 S9: “of this dead butcher, and his fiend-like queen”

Answer 27

“of this ___ butcher, and his ___-like queen”

Question 28

“I bear a ___ life which must not yield to one of woman born.

Answer 28

A5 S8 Macbeth: “I bear a charmed life which must not yield to one of woman born.

Question 29

"”Macduff was from his mothers womb ___.”

Answer 29

A5 S8 Macduff: “Macduff was from his mothers womb untimely ripp’d.”

Question 30

Examples of antithesis

Answer 30

“fair is foul and foul is fair”
“When the battle is lost and won”

Question 31

Trochaic Tetrameter eg

Answer 31

“Double double toil and trouble fire and burn cauldron bubble”
8 syllables per line makes the reader uneasy because their lines are much more like riddles and much shorter than others.

Question 32

Dichotomy

Answer 32

a contrast

Question 33

Epitome

Answer 33

a perfect example

Question 34

what is epizeuxis?

Answer 34

emphasis on a repeated word. E.g “double, double toil and trouble”

Question 35

Grotesque

Answer 35

ugly

Question 36

sibilance

Answer 36

use of ‘s’ close to each other

Question 37

couplet

Answer 37

rhymed pair of lines

Question 38

anagnorisis

Answer 38

when the main character realises their fate

Question 39

“All hail Macbeth, hail to thee that shalt be ___ hereafter.”

Answer 39

“All hail Macbeth, hail to thee that shalt be king hereafter.”

Question 40

“___ Crown”

Answer 40

“Fruitless crown”

Question 41

“They ___ a ___ crown and put a ___ sceptre in my grip”

Answer 41

“They placed a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my grip” (Cultivation) (Jaco. beliefs ab witches destroying crops)

Question 42

What plot is macbeth linked to?

Answer 42

1605 gunpowder plot

Question 43

“‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy/ than destruction dwell in doubtful joy”

Answer 43

“‘Tis safer to be that which we ___/ than destruction dwell in ___ joy” (peripertia) (foreshadows her death) (polyptoton shows that unch. ambition only results in dire loss)

Question 44

“His ___ plead like ___”

Answer 44

Macbeth “His virtues plead like angles” (similie) (connotations of pure)

Question 45

“each new ___/ new ___ howl, new orphans cry, new ___”

Answer 45

“each new morn/ new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows”

Question 46

“Modest wisdom plucks me from overcredulous haste”

Answer 46

Malcom: “Modest wisdom plucks me from overcredulous haste”

Question 47

“Here lay Duncan with his silver skin and his golden blood”

Answer 47

“Here lay Duncan with his silver skin and his golden blood” (connotations of holy)

Question 48

How many time is blood mentioned in the play?

Answer 48

48

Question 49

“give me the ___”

Answer 49

“give me the daggers”

Question 50

“be ___ of the knowledge dearest chuck”

Answer 50

“be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck”

Question 52

Usurper

Answer 52

a person who takes a position of power or importance illegally or by force.

Question 53

“This ___ who name blisters our tongue

Answer 53

“This tyrant who’s name blisters our tongue” (hyperbolic metaphor)

Question 54

“He is ___ so valiant”

Answer 54

“He is full so valiant” Duncan talking about Macbeth.