Macbeth Literary Devices
Macbeth - Act 5 Scenes 1-3
Literary Devices:
Scene 1:
Scene 2:
Scene 3:
Metonymous
Macbeth asks the doctor, "Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff/Which weights upon the heart?" (heart represents the soul)
Alliteration
Macbeth says, "And with some sweet oblivous antitdote..." (repetition of /s/)
"Thou lily-livered boy..." (repetition of /l/)
"Then fly, false thanes,"
Personification
Macbeth: "Curses not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,/Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not." (the heart denies, but only a person can deny)
Verbal Irony
(Understatement): "Geese, villain?"
(Sarcasm): "Therein the patient must minister to himself."
Situational Irony
"Come, put mine armor on;" and then "Pull't off, I say."
Dramatic Irony earlier in the play Lady Macbeth told her husband that a little water would wash away the blood and now here she is having night terrors about the "spot" that refuses to come out of her hands. also during her little rambling fit she was saying that they are safe because their power will protect them from being found out yet she is going absolutely crazy because they aren't safe.
Metaphor
"Those linen cheeks of thine Are counselors to fear.”
Pathetic Fallacy
“My way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf,"
Hyperbole
“All the/ perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” (Act 5, sc. 1, ln. 47-48).
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Literary Devices:
Scene 1:
Scene 2:
Scene 3:
Metonymous
Macbeth asks the doctor, "Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff/Which weights upon the heart?" (heart represents the soul)
Alliteration
Macbeth says, "And with some sweet oblivous antitdote..." (repetition of /s/)
"Thou lily-livered boy..." (repetition of /l/)
"Then fly, false thanes,"
Personification
Macbeth: "Curses not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,/Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not." (the heart denies, but only a person can deny)
Verbal Irony
(Understatement): "Geese, villain?"
(Sarcasm): "Therein the patient must minister to himself."
Situational Irony
"Come, put mine armor on;" and then "Pull't off, I say."
Dramatic Irony earlier in the play Lady Macbeth told her husband that a little water would wash away the blood and now here she is having night terrors about the "spot" that refuses to come out of her hands. also during her little rambling fit she was saying that they are safe because their power will protect them from being found out yet she is going absolutely crazy because they aren't safe.
Metaphor
"Those linen cheeks of thine Are counselors to fear.”
Pathetic Fallacy
“My way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf,"
Hyperbole
“All the/ perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” (Act 5, sc. 1, ln. 47-48).
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