Figurative Language
"Th' expedition of my violent love
Outrun the pauser, reason."
Personification
Macbeth to Macduff
A rhetorical device that uses of words and phrases more than once to emphasize ideas
Repetition
What big mistake does Macbeth make when he murders Duncan?
He forgets to leave the daggers to frame the guards.
"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee."
Macbeth to the imaginary dagger
"One cried 'God bless us' and 'Amen' the other,
As they had seen me with these hangman's hands,
List'ning their fear. I could not say 'Amen'
When they did say 'God bless us.'"
Macbeth to Lady Macbeth
"There's nothing serious in mortality.
All is but toys."
Metaphor
Macbeth to the Thanes
Metonymy
Lady Macbeth says she would have killed Duncan herself, but she was reminded of something. What was she reminded of?
The sleeping Duncan reminded her of her father.
"Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done't"
"Knock, knock, knock! Who's there, i' th' name of Beelzebub?"
Porter
"Wherefore did you so?"
Macduff to Macbeth
"Mine eyes are made the fools o' th' other senses...'
Personification
Macbeth speaking to the dagger
Aside
"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."
Lady Macbeth is ringing the bell
Macbeth says:
"Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell. Ge thee to bed."
"Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil."
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth
"Methought heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!"
Macbeth to Lady Macbeth
"Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures."
Simile
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth
A speech delivered to the audience while a character is alone on stage
Soliloquy
What does Lady Macbeth say will clear them of "this deed" of murder?
"A little water clears us of this deed."
"Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death;
And prophesying, with accents terrible,
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatched to th' woeful time.
Lennox to Macbeth and Macduff
A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers,
Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
Gives way to in repose."
Banquo to his son, Fleance
"We may you see things well done there. Adieu,
Lest our old robes sit easier than our new."
Metonymy
When the audience knows something the character does not know
Dramatic irony
What act does Macbeth use to represent innocence?
Sleep
"Macbeth hath murdered sleep!"
"If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis,
It shall make honor for you."
Macbeth to Banquo
"Where we are,
There's daggers in men's smiles. The near in blood,
The nearer the bloody."
Donalbain to Macbeth