Macbeth Act 1 Test Review Sheet

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and the filthy air.”

“I myself have all the other,

And the very ports they blow;

All the quarters that they know

I’ th’ shipman’s card.

I’ll drain him dry as hay. 

Sleep shall neither night nor day

Hang upon his penthouse lid.

He shall live a man forbid.

Weary sev’nnights, nine times nine,

Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine. 

Though his bark cannot be lost,

Yet it shall be tempest-tossed.

Look what I have.”

“Show me, show me.”

“Here I have a pilot’s thumb, 

wracked as a homeward he did come.” 

“A drum, a drum

Macbeth doth come.”

The Weird Sisters, hand in hand,

Posters of the sea and land,

Thus do go about, about”

“All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thame of Glamis!

All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!

All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”

“Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear

Things that do sound so fair? ---I’ th’ name of truth,

Are you fantastical or that indeed” 

“Lesser than Macbeth and greater.

Not so happy, yet much happier.

Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”

“Why do you dress me

In borrowed robes?”

“Besides the Thane of Cawdor. But ’tis strange.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths,

Win us with honest trifles, to betray ’s

In deepest consequence --”

“That function is smothered in surmise,

And nothing is but what is not.”

“New honors come upon him,

Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold 

But with the aid of use.”

“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

He was a gentleman on whom I built

An absolute trust.”

“I have begun to plant thee and will labor

To make thee full of growing --- Noble Banquo,

That hast no less deserved nor must be known

No less to have done so, let me enfold thee

And hold thee to my heart.”

“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step

On which I must fall down or else o’erleap,

For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;

Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

“What 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”

“Under my battlements. 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. Make thick my blood.”

“Look like th’ innocent

Flower,

But be the serpent under ’t”

“I have no spur

To prick the sides of my intent, but only

Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself

And falls on th’ other--”

“Bring forth men-children only,

For thy undaunted mettle should compose

Nothing but males. Will it not be received,”

“Away, and mock the time with fairest show.

 False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

synecdoche

metonymy

iambic pentameter

foil character

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aside

soliloquy

dramatic irony

verbal irony

Weird (with the two dots on the I)

rapt

liege

wanton