Literary Devices in Macbeth

Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.

• irony

• alliteration

• metaphor

• imagery

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design/ Moves like a ghost.

• Simile

• metaphor

• imagery

• personification

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.

Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell

That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

• foreshadowing

• irony

• metaphor

• all of the above

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse/That to compunctious vistings of nature/shake my fell purpose”

• personification

• imagery

• metaphor

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“There’s daggers in men’s smiles”

• symbolism

• metaphor

• imagery

• all of the above

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“Double,double toil and trouble”

• rhyme

• consonance

• assonance

• internal rhyme

"The Lord’s anointed temple and stole thence/ The life o’ the building!”

• alliteration

• rhyme

• Metaphor

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“Is this a dagger which I see before me/The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.”

• Rhyme

• Imagery

• personification

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would,’/ Like the poor cat i’ the adage?”

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face,/. . .that it resounds. . ./and yelled out. . . .”

• irony

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4