Similes: Figurative Language in Macbeth Alliteration: (Flower imagery) Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. (I, v) (Disguise) Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. (I, v) Metaphors: (Planting imagery) I have begun to plant thee, and will labor To make thee full of growing. (I, iv) (Clothing imagery) Why do you dress me In borrowed robes? (I, iii) But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. (III, iv) Symbols: Birds = omens Water -­‐ ("A little water clears us of this deed,"
II,ii), Blood -­‐ ("Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this
blood clean from my hand? II,ii), Weather -­‐ ("Hover through the fog and filthy
air," I,i)
Clothing -­‐ ("borrowed robes" worn by the Thane
of Cawdor, (I,iii), Sleep – “Macbeth has murdered sleep” Foreshadowing: -­‐ storms, witches “fair is foul and foul is Personification: fair” If chance will have me King, why, chance Dramatic Irony: may crown me, Without my stir (I, iii) -­‐ Witches’ predictions – no man “of woman born shall harm Macbeth” and he Was the hope drunk is safe until Burnam Woods move. Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it -­‐ Duncan comments on the pleasantness slept since? (I, vii) of Macbeth’s castle Works Cited Underwood, Linda Neal. "A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of William
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