1. JEOPARDY William shakespeare’s Macbeth

2. Characters Plot and Analysis Plot and Analysis Themes and Themes and Motifs Literary Terms Literary Terms Renaissance History and History and Poetry 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500

3. Category 1 100 These two characters flee Scotland after the murder of King Duncan.

4. Category 1 100 Who are Malcolm and Donalbain, the king’s sons?

5. Category 1 200 The character who says: (and give the meaning) “Glamis thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness would attend it.”

6. Category 1 200 Who is Lady Macbeth. Meaning: Upon receiving Macbeth’s letter, she acknowledges his ambition, but fears he may have too kind a disposition to perform the evil deeds necessary to reach the throne.

7. Category 1 300 Identify the speaker and explain what cultural and gender stereotype is being reinforced. “Bring forth men children only; For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males.”

8. Category 1 300 Who is Macbeth? Macbeth is taken aback by Lady Macbeth’s ruthlessness (masculine trait) and states that because of this, she will have only male children.

9. Category 1 400 This character is the gate keeper for Macbeth’s castle. What purpose does this character serve?

10. Category 1 400 Who is the Porter? He provides comic relief

11. Category 1 500 The character who says, “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.” And explain the meaning!!

12. Category 1 500 Who is the Third Witch? She tells Banquo that he won’t be King, but his sons will.

13. Category 2 100 Macbeth’s action on the battlefield at the beginning of the play which provides the audience/reader with a hint of his barbaric nature and hence foreshadows the subsequent murders.

14. Category 2 100 What is… Macbeth’s killing of Macdonwald by unseaming him “from nave to th’ chops” and cutting off his head.

15. Category 2 200 After killing Duncan, Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he thought he heard a voice tell him that he murdered __________ and then proceeds to provide metaphors, such as “sore labor’s bath” to describe it.

16. Category 2 200 What is Sleep?

17. Category 2 300 Explain the significance of water for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth right after the murder of Duncan. What contrasting views are expressed?

18. Category 2 300 What is Lady Macbeth thinks “a little water can clear us of this deed” while Macbeth feels that no amount of water can wash away his guilt; instead, he will contaminate “Neptune’s ocean” making the green waters red.

19. Category 2 400 What appears to be the reason for Malcolm and Donalbain’s hasty retreat? What is the reality? (Appearance versus Reality)

20. Category 2 400 What is… Appearance: They killed their father. Reality: They feared they would be killed next.

21. Category 2 500 Macbeth compares himself to this Roman tyrant who raped a woman.

22. Category 2 500 Who is Tarquin?

23. Category 3 100 Macbeth’s hallucination and the numerous mentions of insomnia are examples of this motif.

24. Category 3 100 What is sickness and health.

25. Category 3 200 The paradox uttered by the witches which establishes the theme of the play.

26. Category 3 200 What is “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”

27. Category 3 300 What is the purpose of clothing motifs used through out the play?

28. Category 3 300 What is: They reinforce the theme that appearances can be deceiving since often times people are judged by clothing.

29. Category 3 400 The motif that is established by the following lines: “ And Duncan’s horses- a thing most strange and certain/Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,/Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,/Contending ‘gainst obedience, as they would make/War with mankind.”

30. Category 3 400 What is Unnatural events in nature mirroring evil deeds?

31. Category 3 500 The five motifs we have discussed and found examples of so far in Acts I and II.

32. Category 3 500 1.Blood Motif 2.Clothing Motif 3.Light and Darkness 4.Sickness and Health 5.Unnatural events in nature mirroring human evil.

33. Category 4 100 This term refers to a hero’s tragic flaw.

34. Category 4 100 What is hamartia?

35. Category 4 200 What two literary devices does Shakespeare employ in the following lines: “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.”

36. Category 4 200 What are Apostrophe and Personfication.

37. Category 4 300 The reference to Bellona’s bridegroom in Act I is an example of this literary device. (Also, explain the signficiance.)

38. Category 4 300 What is mythological allusion? Since Bellona is the goddess of war, Macbeth is called her bridegroom. However, this allusion also underscores Lady Macbeth’s power and influence over her husband.

39. Category 4 400 The literary device evident in King Duncan’s words: “This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses.”

40. Category 4 400 What is situational irony. (It is ironic that he would feel such pleasure at the precise location of his death.)

41. An example of dramatic irony from Acts I or II. Category 4 500

42. Answers may vary. When the King proclaims Macbeth Thane of Cawdor, the audience becomes aware of this before Macbeth does. Category 4 500

43. Category 5 100 Renaissance poets: Authors of “The Passionate Shephard to His Love” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shephard”

44. Category 5 100 Who are Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh?

45. Category 5 200 The literary tradition of poetry, Carpe diem, means…

46. Category 5 200 What is seize the day!

47. Category 5 300 For which king did Shakespeare write and do a production of Macbeth?

48. Category 5 300 Who is James the I.

49. Category 5 400 How did Elizabeth I influence writing during the Renaissance?

50. Category 5 400 Due to the political stability that took place during her reign and the defeat of the Spanish Armada, creativity flourished and writers were inspired by her and wrote tributes and poems praising her.

51. Category 5 500 The problem with the shepherd’s proposition in “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.”

52. Category 5 500 What is… He promises that which is unattainable to him due to his status as a shepherd. He also promises superficial things that will not last.