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Macbeth Act I - Literary Devices
Macbeth Act I - Literary Devices
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Identify the correct literary device from the quotations and examples.
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"Only look up clear;/ To alter favour ever is to fear"
couplet
pathetic fallacy
pun
irony
2
"But I am faint, my gashes cry for help"
allusion
metaphor
irony
personification
3
"Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,/ Confronted him"
paradox
allusion
metaphor
aside
4
"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater"
irony
paradox
metaphor
allusion
5
"Of brawling love! O loving hate" (R&J, none in Macbeth so far)
paradox
oxymoron
metaphor
juxtaposition
6
"Some say the earth was feverous and did shake" (not in Act 1)
pathetic fallacy
personification
paradox
allusion
7
"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
juxtaposition
paradox
dramatic irony
soliloquy
8
"As two spent swimmers, that do cling together/ And choke their art."
metaphor
personification
simile
oxymoron
9
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it"
simile
dramatic irony
metaphor
pardox
10
"But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,/ A prosperous gentleman"
oxymoron
irony
couplet
dramatic irony
