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| Question | Answer |
| Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words. EX) But now I am cabin’d, cribbed, confin’d, bound in to saucy doubts and fears” ( 3. 4. 28-29) |
| Pun | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings. EX) Thou art the best o’ the cut-throats ( 3. 4. 19 ) |
| Hyperbole | Exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. EX) Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. ( 2. 2. 72-75 ) |
| Irony | The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous EX)The gracious Duncan Was pitied of Macbeth: marry: he was dead: ( 3.6. 3-4) |
| Foreshadowing | A warning, clue or indication of a future event EX) It will have blood: they say blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak ( 3.4. 146-148 ) |
| Comic Relief | Humorous content in a dramatic or literary work intended to offset more serious situations EX) Thou canst not say I did it: never shake Thy gory locks at me. ( 3.4. 61-62 ) |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Comparing two things without using like or as. EX) There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed,No teeth for th'present." ( 3.4. 34-36 ) |
| Simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, using like or as. EX) |
| Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference EX "My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony’s was by Caesar. " ( 3.1. 63-64) |
| Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. EX) It will have blood, they say. Blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak." (Act III, Scene 4 Line 124) |
| Repetition | The action of repeating something that has already been said or written EX) Hail! Hail Hail! ( 1. 3 . 64-66 ) |
| Motif | A dominant or recurring idea. Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes. Ex) Prophecy, Violence, Light & Dark, Blood, Animals, clothing |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction EX) "Be innocent of the knowledge" ( 3. 2 . 52 ) Macbeth is taking the role of Lady Macbeth now, personalities have been switched. |
| Antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else EX) Foul is fair, and foul is fair |
| Assonance | Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels |
| Paradox | A seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true. EX) "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." |
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