Question: These definitions for sequence appear in the dictionary. Which one best fits the context of the passage?

Answer: The order in which they intended to happen.

Question: By the end of the play, Macbeth is seen by some as a villain. Which lines from the play best illustrate this?

Answer: “We’ll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, Painted upon a pole, and underwrite, “Here may you see the tyrant.”

Question: [sidenote: read the passage]

Which evidence from the text best supports the idea that Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth will not be strong enough to do what is necessary in order to become king?

Answer: Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way

Question: [sidenote: read the passage]

What character trait does the witches’ prophecy encourage in Macbeth?

Answer: Ambition

Question: [sidenote: read the passage]

What literary technique does Shakespeare use by suddenly introducing a ghost into the play?

Answer: Surprise

Question: The two styles are different. Why would Shakespeare create different styles for different characters?

Answer: The supernatural characters have more poetic styles than the ordinary characters, in order to distinguish their roles.

Question: What character type is found in both Welles’s Macbeth and Shakespeare’s Macbeth?

Answer: They are both tragic heroes.

Question: Which literary technique do the lines demonstrate?

Answer: Foreshadowing

Question: Which evidence from the text best supports the idea that Malcolm and Donalbain believe they need to flee Scotland before someone tries to murder them too?

Answer: This murderous shaft that’s shot / Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way / Is to avoid the aim.

Question: Macbeth learns about Lady Macbeth’s death after the audience does. What literary technique does Shakespeare use by doing this?

Answer: Tension