Macbeth Exam Study Guide

Man who will be “lesser than Macbeth”

• Banquo
• Ross
• Lennox
• Hecate

The Porter scene serves the purpose of 

• providing comic relief for the audience
• providing a reasonable length of time for Macbeth and his wife to get into bed
• providing a first view of Macduff as a foil for Macbeth
• wait, who's the Porter?

The opposite of what should be - Lady Macbeth is "manlier" than her husband.

• Irony

• Soliloquy

• Tragedy

• Foreshadowing

How we understand the traits and development of a character

• Metaphor

• Characterization

• Foreshadowing

• Aside

When the audience knows something that the characters do not.

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• Dramatic Irony

Which word best describes the mood Shakespeare tries to create in the opening scene?

• Haunting

• Serious

• Peaceful

• Idyllic

Macbeth getting the title of thane of Cawdor is ironic because…

• Macbeth gets the title because the Thane of Cawdor was a traitor, and Macbeth plans to become a traitor.

• Macbeth doesn’t have ambition and didn’t want this title

• Macbeth already knows and believes that he is going to get this title but has to act surprised

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Which lines tell us that Banquo seeks to know his future? 

• “My noble partner you greet with present grace and great prediction of noble having and of royal hope,

• “who neither beg nor fear your favours nor your hate.”

• “I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed which outwardly ye show?”

• “If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me,”

When the witches give Macbeth his prophecy, this is a form of dramatic irony because…

• Something happens that was unexpected, “The thane of Cawdor lives a prosperous gentleman” 

• Ross says something sarcastic, “He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor…hail most worthy thane” 

• The witches know something that Macbeth does not, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!”

• The audience knows that he is getting this title, but Macbeth does not, “Go pronounce [the thane of Cawdor’s] present death, and with is former title greet Macbeth” 

Who was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped"?

• Macduff

• Malcolm

• Fleance

• Siward