Figurative Language Quotes in Macbeth – Flashcards
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"This is the sergeant Who like a good and hardy soldier fought 'Gainst my captivity."
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"Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art."
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As thick as hail came post with post
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But like a man he died
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metaphor
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Kind gentlemen, your pains, Are register'd, where every day I turn The leaf to read them.
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I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss
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metaphor
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
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personification
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My gashes cry for help
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personification
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I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds
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personification
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Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn
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hyperbole, allusion
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Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?
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hyperbole
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Thy crown does scar mine eye-balls
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hyperbole
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Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there, Weep our sad bosoms empty
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hyperbole
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This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues
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alliteration
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And yet wouldst wrongly win
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alliteration
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After life's fitful fever he sleeps well
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alliteration
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To doff their dire distresses
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blood
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water
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animals
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weather
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paradox
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Fair is foul, and foul is fair
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paradox
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That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire
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allusion
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why should I play the Roman fool and die on mine own sword
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ambition
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macbeth's tragic flaw
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dramatic irony
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This castle hath a pleasant seat
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hubris
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macbeth's greed and ambition
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aside
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The prince of cumberland! That is step on which I must fall down or else o'erleap
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If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir
