Macbeth quotes

'look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it'

'look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it'

Lady Macbeth

Simile

Metaphor

Contrast

Imagery

Symbolism

'lesser than Macbeth and greater not so happy yet much happier thou shalt get kings though thou be none'

Witches

Paradox

Foreshadowing

Contrast

'i have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which over leaps itself and falls on the other'

Macbeth

Metaphor

Personification

Alliteration

‘Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here and fill me from crown to the top toe full of direst cruelty'

Lady Macbeth

Imperative

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Alliteration

'fair is foul and foul is fair hover through the fog and filthy air'

Witches

Fricative

Paradox

Alliteration

Imagery

'i'gin to be a-weary of the sun and wish the estate o' the world were now undone'

Macbeth

Alliteration

Imagery

‘i would while it was smiling in my face have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums and dash'd the brains out had i so sworn as you have done this'

Lady Macbeth

Hyperbole

Imagery

Conditional statement

Parallel structure

Consonance

'out dammed spot! out, i say! one-two why then 'tis time to do't. hell is murky. fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeared? what need we fear who knows it. when none can call our power to account?'

Lady Macbeth

Repetition

Exclamation

Rhetorical question

Contrast

Anaphora

'out, out, brief candle! life is but a walking shadow; a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and' then is heard no more. it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'

Macbeth

Metaphor

Imagery

Irony