Rhetorical+Devices

1.1.3 **colloquial** “When the hurly-burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won.” 1.1.12 **chiasmus** “Fair is foul, and foul is fair…” 1.1.12 **consonance** “Fair is foul, and foul is fair…” 1.1.12 **aphorism** “Fair is foul, and foul is fair…” 1.2.32 **style** “No sooner with justice had, valor armed, compelled these skipping kerns to trust their heels,” 1.3.36-38 **polysyndeton** “Thrice to thine and thrice to mine, and thrice again to make up 9” 1.3.39 **juxtaposition** – contrast between fair/foul “So fair and foul a day I have not seen” 1.3.36-38 **anaphora** “__Thrice__ to thine and __thrice__ to mine and __thrice__ again to make up 9” 1.3.61-63 **allusion** “…The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, Till that __Bellona’s__ bridegroom, lapped in proof, confronted him with self comparisons…” 1.3.68-69 **antithesis** “Lesser than Macbeth and greater.” “Not so happy, yet much happier.” 1.3.69 **juxtaposition** “Not so happy, yet much happier” 1.3.71-72 **chiasmus** “… all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!” “Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!” 1.3.71-72 **epanalepsis** “…all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!” “Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!” 1.3.132 **metonymy –** crown represents kingship “…might yet enkindle you onto the crown” 1.3.131 **litotes** “…Promised no less to them” 1.3.144 **isocolon** “Cannot be ill, Cannot be good” 1.3.144 **parallel structure** “Cannot be ill, Cannot be good” 1.3.148 **dialect** “Doth” 1.4.23-24 **rhyming couplet** “Might have been mine! Only I have left to say, More is thy due than more than all can pay.” 1.4.27 **antithesis** “Is to receive, our duties, and our duties are to your throne” 1.4.28 **polysyndeton** “…to your throne and state and servants” 1.4.47 **simile** “like stars” 1.4.60 **personification** “Which the eye fears 1.6.28-29 **simile** “And his great love (sharp as his spur) hath helped him 1.5.57-58 **personification** “Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep trough the blanket of the dark to cry..” 1.5.45-46 **double entendre** “The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the __fatal__ entrance of Duncan under my battlements.” 1.5.75-77 **extended** **metaphor** “Look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.” 1.5.4 **idiom** “When I burned in desire to question them further…” 1.7.1-2 **metonymy, connotation** “If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly.” 1.7.24-28 **imagery** “Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, that tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur…” 1.7.22 **allusion** “… Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubin horsed upon the sightless couriers…” 1.7.39-40 **rhetorical question** “Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?” 1.7.75-77 **metaphor** “… That memory, the warder of the brain, shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason a limbeck only.” 1.7.69 **rhetorical question** Macbeth: “if we should fail-“ Lady Macbeth: “We fail?” 1.7.94-96 **rhyming couplet** “Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know**.”**