| A | B |
|---|
| Macbeth | Thane of Glamis |
| MacDuff | He was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped" |
| Hecate | Queen of the Witches |
| Ross | He tells Macduff his wife and babes are dead |
| Fleance | Son to Banquo |
| Banquo | Macbeth's do-daptain |
| Malcolm | Duncan's son who fled to England |
| Donalbain | Duncan's son who fled to Ireland |
| MacDonwald | Traitor who was killed by Macbeth in the first Act |
| Lady Macbeth | "Out Damned Spot!" |
| Porter | He answers the knocking at the door and provides comic relief |
| Raphael Holinshed | Historian who wrote The History or England, Scotland, and Wales |
| Paradox | "Foul is fair and fair is foul" |
| Helmeted Head | Beware Macduff! |
| Bloody Child | No man born of woman shall beat Macbeth |
| Baby King with a branch in his hand | Macbeth will not be born until the woods of Birnam Wood come to Dunsanine |
| Foil | Contrasting imagaes |
| Couplet | 2 lined stanza |
| quatrain | 4 lined stanza |
| soliloquy | long, solo speech |
