Friday, March 14, 2014

What are some literary devices used in Act V?

In Act V, Scene 3 of Macbeth there are also the
following:


Metonymy 


Macbeth
asks the doctor, "Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff/Which weights upon
the heart?" (heart represents the
soul)


Alliteration


Macbeth
says,


"And with some sweet oblivous antitdote..."
(repetition of /s/)


"Thou lily-livered boy..." (repetition
of
/l/)


Parallelism


Macbeth: 
"Go prick thy face and over red thy
fear"


Assonance


Macbeth: 
"As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/I must not look to have; but, in their
stead,/Curses not loud byt deep, mouth -honor, breath..."  (repetition of vowel
/o/)


Personification


Macbeth: "Curses
not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,/Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare
not." (the heart denies, but only a person can deny)

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