| Who says: “I fear thou played’st most foully for’t” and who is the character talking about? | Banquo; soliloquoy about Macbeth |
| Who says: “Sirrah, a word with you. Attend those men. Our pleasure?” and who is he talking to? | Macbeth; he was talking to a servant |
| What is Sirrah? | a ceremonial address; indicates that person is of lower status than the speaker |
| Who says: “To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” | Macbeth |
| What is Macbeth’s “eternal jewel” and what does it mean? | His soul. “Why should I give up my soul for Banquo’s sons?” |
| What is Macbeth doing when he says: “I’m very afraid of Banquo. There’s something noble about him that makes me fear him”? | Flattering James I |
| Who says: “We are men, my liege”? | First Murderer |
| Name three motifs in this act. | Dogs, snake, bird |
| Who says: “I am one, my liege, whom the vile blows and buffets of the world have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world”? | Second Murderer |
| Who talks about the note of expectation and what is it? | Second Murderer; guest list |
| Who says: “Let it come down” and what is it an example of? | First Murderer; metaphor |
| Who says: “‘Tis better thee without than he within”? What kind of irony is it? | Macbeth; verbal |
| Who says: “Thou art the best o’ th’ cutthroats”? | Macbeth |
| Define nonpareil. Who mentions it? What is he talking about? | Absolute best of something; Macbeth; talking about First Murderer cutting both throats |
| Who says: “But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears”? What two literary tools are used? | Macbeth; alliteration/assonance |
| Who says: “But Banquo’s safe?” What kind of irony? | Macbeth; verbal |
| Who says: “With twenty trenched gashes on his head”? | First Murderer |
| What appears to Macbeth that makes him seem like he’s crazy? | Ghost of Banquo |
| Who says: “This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger which you said”? | Lady Macbeth |
| Who says: “This is more strange than such a murder is”? | Macbeth |
| Who says: “I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing to those that know me”? | Macbeth |
| What is a Hyrcan Tiger? | A tiger from Iran |
| Who says: “What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, the armed rhinoceros, or th’ Hyrcan tiger”? What kind of irony? | Macbeth; dramatic |
| Who says: “It will have blood, they say. Blood will have blood”? | Macbeth |
| “The secret’st man of blood” is a synonym for what? | Murderer |
| Who says: “You lack the season of all natures sleep”? | Lady Macbeth |
| Who says: “We are yet but young in deed”? | Macbeth |
| Who is Hecate? | Queen of the Witches |
| Who says: “Men must not walk too late”? What literary device is used? | Lennox; sarcasm |
| Who says: “Some holy angel fly to the court of England and unfold his message ere he come”? | Lennox |
| What was the king’s touch and what is it an allusion to? | If the king touched someone he healed them; allusion to James I because he also thought he had the king’s touch |
| What kind of blood was used in plays back in the day? | Pig’s blood |
| What is rudibega? | What actors would say to make crowd murmur |
Macbeth Act Three
November 10, 2019