Name: ____________________ Per: _____ Date: ____________ Macbeth Test Review Sheet Part One: Characters and Literary Terms Be able to identify the following characters and literary terms. Macbeth – Duncan’s cousin and General in the military; kills Duncan Lady Macbeth ‐ Macbeth’s wife; as, if not more, ambitious as her husband The Weird Sisters – Also known as the Three Witches; evil prophets Banquo ‐ Solider; Macbeth’s best friend whom Macbeth has killed Fleance – Banquo’s son; survived murder attempt Duncan ‐ The King of Scotland; murdered by Macbeth Malcolm – Duncan’s son; Goes to England Donalbain – Goes to Ireland The Porter – The Door Keeper Ross – Nobleman of Scotland Hecate ‐ Goddess of Witchcraft; Gorgon ‐ Mythological monster; has snakes for hair Pathetic fallacy ‐ Weather reacts to human emotions Metaphor ‐ one subject is implied to be another so as to draw a comparison between their similarities and shared traits Allusion – a figure of speech whereby the author refers to a subject matter such as a place, event, or literary work Foreshadow ‐ The literary device foreshadowing refers to the use of indicative words/phrases and hints that set the stage for a story to unfold and give the reader a hint of something that is going to happen without revealing the story or spoiling the suspense Comic Relief ‐ The use of a comic scene to interrupt a succession of intensely tragic dramatic moments. Irony ‐ The use of irony in literature refers to playing around with words such that the meaning implied by a sentence/word is actually different from the literal meaning derived Soliloquy – On stage alone, speaking to themself Aside – a character says something that only the audience can hear; the other characters do not hear what is said _____________________________________________________________________________________ Part Two is multiple choice. Study your reading guides to prepare for part two. Part Three: Quote identification. Be able to identify who says the lines below and in what context the lines are spoken. 1. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
Speaker: The Witches about the battle
Context/Significance: End of Scene 1 - The Witches wait for the battle to end to talk
about the prophecies. Talk about battle, end of the scene
2. “he unseam'd him from the nave to the chops”
Speaker: Captain to Duncan
Context/Significance: The captain tells Duncan about Macbeth’s bravery in battle; he
cut a man in half vertically
3. “Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.”
Speaker: Lady Machbeth about Macbeth in her soliloquy
Context/Significance: Lady Macbeth is afraid her husband is too much of a coward to
commit the murder of Duncan. She thinks he is too kind to do it.
4. “Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!”
Speaker: Lady Macbeth to evil spirits - soliloquy.
Context/Significance: Wants her femininity to be taken away so she can be the “Man”
since her husband is weak.
5. “Let not light see my black and deep desires”
Speaker: Macbeth - soliloquy.
Context/Significance: Macbeth does not anyone to see what he is about to do (kill
Duncan)
6. “I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.”
Speaker: Lady Macbeth to Macbeth.
Context/Significance: She calls Macbeth a coward and shows that she is brutal, she
wants to be Queen more than anything; she tells her husband she would kill her child
rather than break a promise to him (Macbeth)
7. “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,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast”
Speaker: Macbeth to Lady Macbeth.
Context/Significance: Macbeth has insominia and he can’t sleep because this
thoughts are racing with what he has done
8. “Here lay Duncan,
His silver skin laced with his golden blood;
And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature
For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,
Steep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers
Unmannerly breech'd with gore. Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make's love known?”
Speaker: Macbeth to the other Thanes
Context/Significance: Immediately after the banquet, explains why he killed the
guards over the death of Duncan,
9. “Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised, and I fear
Thou play'dst most foully for't”
Speaker: Banquo about Macbeth
Context/Significance: Banquo reveals he is suspicious of Macbeth’s sudden rise to
power. He thinks Macbeth may have killed Duncan
10. “Fly, Fleance, fly!"
Speaker: Banquo to his son Fleance.
Context/Significance: Banquo tells his son, Fleance, to run away as they are attacked
by Macbeth’s assassins.