| simile | “This is the sergeant Who like a good and hardy soldier fought’Gainst my captivity.” |
| simile | “Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art.” |
| simile | As thick as hail came post with post |
| simile | But like a man he died |
| metaphor | Kind gentlemen, your pains, Are register’d, where every day I turn The leaf to read them. |
| metaphor | I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss |
| metaphor | Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stage |
| personification | My gashes cry for help |
| personification | I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds |
| personification | Our castle’s strengthWill laugh a siege to scorn |
| hyperbole, allusion | Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? |
| hyperbole | Thy crown does scar mine eye-balls |
| hyperbole | Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there, Weep our sad bosoms empty |
| hyperbole | This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues |
| alliteration | And yet wouldst wrongly win |
| alliteration | After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well |
| alliteration | To doff their dire distresses |
| symbol | blood |
| symbol | water |
| symbol | animals |
| symbol | weather |
| paradox | Fair is foul, and foul is fair |
| paradox | That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;What hath quenched them hath given me fire |
| allusion | why should I play the Roman fool and die on mine own sword |
| ambition | macbeth’s tragic flaw |
| dramatic irony | This castle hath a pleasant seat |
| hubris | macbeth’s greed and ambition |
| aside | The prince of cumberland! That is step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap |
| aside | If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir |
Figurative Language Quotes in Macbeth
July 29, 2019