Name: ______________________

Macbeth Terms
After studying the Macbeth Terms on Quizlet.com, fill in the blanks to the
following sentences.
1. When Macbeth asked the three witches for another prediction about his
future, he drank a potion that allowed him to see __________________, but
they were not really there.
2. Sometimes, Shakespeare has characters talk to themselves in an
_________________ so the audience can hear what they are thinking (Act
One, Scene Three).
3. The entire literary work of Macbeth is a _______________________.
4. Macbeth is written in a specific form of non-rhyming poetry called
____________________; there are ten syllables in each line and five of ten are
accented.
5. When Macbeth kills Banquo, the plot changes in some way; this is the
________________ of the story.
6. In Act Two, Scene Four, a scene of __________________________, the Old Man
and Ross are discussing the unnatural things that are happening in the
castle in a humorous way.
7. The major differences between Macbeth and Banquos characters stand
as a __________________.
8. There is a lot of _____________________ throughout the play; for example
when the witches drop hints as to what Macbeths future may be on
multiple occasions.
9. The public theater in London where Shakespeare performed his plays was
called ___________________________.
10. At the end of Macbeth, many innocent people are dead; one might call
this a ________________________.
11. When Banquo tells Macbeth that the witches are giving them
prophecies by saying, The instruments of darkness tell us truths he is

using a _____________________.
12. There is such an eerie and suspenseful ________________ in the
beginning of Macbeth that the audience/ readers can feel it.
13. The _________________________ in Macbeth is Macbeth himself; he is the
protagonist in the tragic play.
14. The recurring image of blood is one of the _____________________ in
Macbeth; it appears throughout the play.
15. At one time, the witches give Macbeth four different
_____________________ that are paired with an apparition for each.
16. In Act One, Scene Two, Malcom states that, This is the sergeant who
like a good and hardy soldier fought gainst my captivity. What is this an
example of? ____________________
17. In Act Two, Scene One, Macbeth has a ____________________, these are
some of its lines:
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
to feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
a dagger of the mind, a false creation,
proceeding from the heat-oppressd brain?
18. Macbeths ___________________________ is that he is greedy; he becomes
obsessed with the desire to be king, and it leads to his downfall.