Repetition | “A light, a light!” |
Repitition/Foreshadow | “Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge.” |
Alliteration/Irony | “…..humble host…” |
Simile | “Whole as the marble, founded as the rock/As broad and general as the casing air.” |
Alliteration/Irony/Pun | “But now I am cabined, cribbed and confined…Banquo’s safe?” |
Metaphor/Foreshadowing | “There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled Macbeth/Hath nature that in time will venom breed.” |
Apostrophe/Parallel Structure | “Avant |
simile / alliteration | “approach thou like the rugged Russian bear” |
simile | “…overcome us like a summer’s cloud” |
contrast | “…the natural ruby of your cheeks when mine is blanched with fear.” |
recurrent theme | “you lack the season of all natures, sleep” |
foreshadow | “We are yet but young in deed” |
alliteration | “How did you dare / to trade and traffice / The close contriver” |
mythological reference / alliteration | “Get you gone / And at the pit of Acheron / Meet me in the morning.” |
parallel structure | “your vessels…your spells.. / Your charms…” |
foreshadow | “Great business must be wrought ere noon.” |
irony / alliteration | “Banquo walked too late / Whom you may say, Fleance killed / For Fleance fled.” |
irony | “Was not that nobly done?” (Lennox refers to Macbeth’s swift retaliatory punishment, the killing of the 2 guards) |
recurrent theme | “…we may again / Give…sleep to our nighs…” |
biblical reference / symbolism | “Some holy angel / Fly to the court of England and unfold / His message ere he come…”(reference to forces of good) |
… | “That swift blessing / May soon return to this our suffering country” |
Macbeth Act 3 Figurative Language PT 2
August 3, 2019