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Literary Device Quotes in Macbeth
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| Irony | “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until/Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill/ Shall come against him (Act. 4, sc. 1, ln. 92-94) |
| Imagery | “Upon the corner of the moon/ There hangs a vap’rous drop profound./ And that distilled by magic sleights/ Shall raise such artificial sprites/ As by the strength of their illusion/ Shall draw him on to his confusion” (Act 3, sc. 5, ln. 23-29). |
| Metaphor | “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ And then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing” (Act 5, sc. 4, ln. 23-28). |
| Simile | . “Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would,’/ Like the poor cat i’ the adage?” (Act 1, sc. 7, ln. 44-45) |
| Personification | “Each new moon/New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face,/. . .that it resounds. . ./and yelled out. . . .” (Act 4, sc. 2, ln. 4-9) |
| Hyperbole | “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the green one red” (Act 2, sc. 2, ln. 60-63) |
| Foreshadowing | “Now o’er the one half-world/ Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse/ The curtained sleep (Act 2, sc. 1, ln. 49-51) |
| Allusion | “Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear/ Thy very stones prate of my whereabout” (Act 2, sc. 1, ln. 57-58). |
| Simile | “Look like th’ innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” (Act 1, sc. 4, ln. 67-68 |
| Personification | “Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care,” (Act 2, sc. 2, ln. 37) |
| Irony | “Had I but died an hour before this chance,/ I had lived a blessed time;” (Act 2, sc. 3, ln. 90-91). |
| Metaphor | “Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope/ The Lord’s anointed temple and stole thence/ The life o’ the building!” (Act 2, sc. 3, ln. 66-68). |
| Hyperbole | All the/ perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” (Act 5, sc. 1, ln. 47-48). |
| Foreshadowing | “By the pricking of my thumbs,/ Something wicked this way comes./ Open locks,/ Whoever knocks!” [Enter Macbeth.] (Act 4, sc. 1, ln 44-47 and stage direction). |
| Allusion | “Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapped in proof, . . ., rebellious arm against arm. . .” (Act 1, sc. 1, ln. 54-56). |
| Imagery | “For brave Macbeth. . .with his brandished steel, . . .carved out his passage/ Till he faced the slave; . . .Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops/ And fixed his head upon our battlements” (Act 1, sc. 2, ln. 16-23). |
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