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| words that appeal to senses. Add mood and emotion ex: "Why do you dress me in borrowed robes" (act 1, sc 3) |
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comparing 2 things using like or as.
ex: Thr sleeping and dead are but as pictures |
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| a long speech were a character reveals inner feeling and thoughts to audience. EX: Lady MB's speech in the beginning of scene 5 act 1. |
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indirect way of expressing something to seem less brutal.
ex: LMB not actually saying murder Duncan |
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adding humor in an otherwise serious play
ex: the porter in act II |
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a staement with two meaning
ex: when lmb says for the spirits to unsex her it means to make her a man or it could mean to be ruthless. |
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between two outside forces.
ex: Macbeth and Macduff fighting |
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a struggle inside a person
ex: Macbeth deciding to kill Duncan |
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| a reference to historical or literary event or figure. Ex: "will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood" |
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a hint or suggestion in writing
ex: Macbeth saying Present fears are less horrible imaginings |
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rhythm and rhyme
ex: witches speech in act 4 |
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a person object action or place that stands for something beyond ordinary meaning.
ex: light means goodness, dark evil |
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feeling and atmosphere
ex: in the begining witches set scary mood |
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an exageration
ex: Malcolms things he would do as king |
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a hint about what might happen
ex: witches apparitions |
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adds human characteristics to an inanimate object
ex: doctor saying deaf pillow |
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when the audience knows something the characters don't
ex: when Duncan praises Macbeth but Macbeth plans to kill him |
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