Macbeth Figurative Language

If I say sooth, I must report they were / as cannons overcharged with double cracks (1.2.40)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

If you can look into the seeds of time / And say which grain will grown and which will not, Speak then to me (1.3.61)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me / Without my stir. (1.3.155)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Come what come may. / Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. (1.3.161)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

More is thy due than more than all can pay. (1.4.24)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, / Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, 'Hold, hold!' (1.5.53)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, / Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, 'Hold, hold!' (1.5.53)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, / Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, 'Hold, hold!' (1.5.53)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, / And yet I would not sleep. (2.1.7)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! / Macbeth does murder sleep." (2.2.46).

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A