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WorksheetsMacbeth Quotations and Techqniues
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
"Look like th'innocent flower but be the ................. under't"
Snake
Serpent
Poison
thorn
"Too full of the ............... of human kindness"
Warmth
Intelligence
Milk
Trust
"Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder ........."
Sleep
Duncan
Innocence
Everyone
Will all great Neptune's .......... wash this blood / Clean from my hand?
Sea
Water
Fluid
Ocean
Complete the quotation: 'Stars, hide your ___ / Let not ___ see my ___ and ___ desires.' (Act 1)
fires... light... black... deep...
fires... light... dark... deep...
fires... day... dark... strong...
fires... good... black... deep...
Complete the quotation: 'Come you spirits... ____ me here / Fill me from the ____ to the ____ top full of _____ cruelty.' (Act 1)
release...toes....crown...terrible...
unsex...crown...toe...direst...
unsex...toe...crown...direst...
unsex...toe....crown...terrible...
How does the Captain describe Macbeth fighting?
"Too full of the milk of human kindness"
"Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution"
"O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!"
"So foul and fair a day I have not seen"
Complete the quotation: 'A little ____ clears us of this ____.' (Act 2)
water... murder...
water...deed...
wash...blood...
wash...crime...
Complete the quotation: 'O full of _____ is my ____ dear ____.' (Act 3)
evil... mind... lady...
scorpions... mind... lady...
scorpions... mind... wife...
poison...mind... wife...
What does BLOOD symbolise in the play?
Ghosts and deception
Death and the supernatural
Violence and innocence
Violence and guilt
Which of these is an example of dramatic irony?
King Duncan praises Macbeth in between Macbeth's asides which reveal his dark intentions.
Lady Macbeth cannot wash the blood from her hands.
Banquo is told he will be father to a line of kings.
King Duncan is described as a good, virtuous king.
Which of these quotations best relates to the theme of order vs chaos?
'The night has been unruly.' (Lennox)
'This castle hath a pleasant seat.' (Duncan)
'The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down or else o'erleap,' (Macbeth)
'All my pretty chickens and their dam.' (Macduff)
Which of these quotations symbolises how Macbeth has acted against God's will and feels he will be punished?
'This is a sorry sight.'
'Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.'
'The multitudinous seas incarnadine'.
'Amen stuck in my throat'.
What technique is used when Macbeth refers to the murder of Duncan as the 'deed'?
Simile
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Personifiction
What TWO techniques are used in the line: 'Fair is foul and foul is fair'? (SELECT TWO)
Metaphor
Rhyme
Alliteration
Paradox
Dark night ____________ the travelling lamp'
shadows
stops
strangles
suffocates
Who says this? 'There's daggers in men's smiles'
Donalbain
Macbeth
Malcolm
Banquo
Identify the missing words:
“Your ........., my Thane, is as a ........”
heart / book
face / book
soul / book
desire / book
