Macbeth Figurative Language

Question 1

“If I say sooth, I must report they were/ as cannons overcharged with double cracks”

Answer 1

Simile, The comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”

Question 2

“I have begun to plant thee and will labor/ To make thee full of growing”

Answer 2

Metaphor, The implied comparison of two things not using the words “like” or “as”

Question 3

“If chance will have me kind, why chance may crown”

Answer 3

Personification, The attribution of human characteristics to objects, ideas, or animals

Question 4

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair,/ Hover through the fog and filthy air”

Answer 4

Antithesis, Presents ideas in opposition to each other to make a point

Question 5

“As thick as hail/ Came post with post…”

Answer 5

Hyperbole, Uses extreme exaggerations to make a point

Question 6

“The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me/ in borrowed robes?”

Answer 6

Metonymy, Uses a related term to represent something

Question 7

“The interim having weighed it, let us speak/ Our free hearts can to each other”

Answer 7

Synecdoche, A part that’s made to represent the whole vice versa