| Fair is foul, and foul is fair | 3 Witches, Paradox |
| And nothing is but what is not | Macbeth, Paradox |
| So foul and fair a day I have not seen | Macbeth, Paradox |
| When the battle’s lost and won | Second Witch, Paradox, Irony |
| All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter! | Third Witch, Motivation, Foreshadow |
| All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! | Second Witch, Motivation |
| Wherever in your sightless substances | Lady Macbeth, Alliteration |
| See, see our honored hostess | Duncan, Alliteration, Irony |
| I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people, which would be worn now in their newest gloss | Macbeth, Metaphor |
| Kind gentlemen, your pains are registered where every day I turn the leaf to read them | Macbeth, Metaphor |
| Or memorize another Golgotha | Captain, Allusion |
| till that Bellona’s Bridegroom, lapped in proof | Ross, Allusion |
| I’ll drain him dry as hay/ Sleep shall neither night nor day | First Witch, Foreshadow |
| Nor heaven peep through the blanket of dark to cry hold, hold | Lady Macbeth, Personification |
| Was the hope drunk where in you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? | Lady Macbeth, Personification |
| Sightless substances | Lady Macbeth, Oxymoron |
| Murd’ring ministers | Lady Macbeth, Oxymoron |
| There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face, He was a gentlemen on whom I built an absolute trust | Duncan, Irony |
| You shall put this night’s great business into my dispatch | Lady Macbeth, Pun |
| If it were done when ’tis done then ’twere well it were done quickly | Macbeth, Pun |
Macbeth Literary Terms Act 1
August 17, 2019