Antithesis in Macbeth

Answer 1

There are a few good examples in Act 2. Scene 1 (bold added):

Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven;

Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.

A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,

And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers,

Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature

Gives way to in repose.

Banquo's lines have "husbandry in heaven," "Take thee that too," and "lies like lead," which are all examples of alliteration, where a certain sound is repeated.

Answer 2

There are several examples of blank verse in Macbeth. One is â??Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death."

Answer 3

Pick any line from the play which doesn't rhyme with the one before it or after it and has ten syllables. Basically, open the book with your eyes closed and point at a line at random. It's probably a line of blank verse.

Answer 4

But soft! What light through yon-der win-dow breaks? It is the East and Ju-liet is the sun! A-rise fair sun and kill the en-vious moon, Who is al-rea-dy sick and pale with grief That though her maid art far more fair than she

Answer 5

Shakespeare used blank verse in almost all of his plays, tragedies, histories and comedies. It is close to the natural rhythms of English but it is more regular, which can make it more powerful to say and hear and also makes it easier to remember.

Of course, not all of Macbeth is in blank verse. The Porter talks in prose. The witches talk in tetrameter a lot of the time ("Double, double, toil and trouble" is trochaic tetrameter).

Answer 6

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare. There are various instances of personification. For example, Macbeth says that "Macbeth doth Murder sleep."

Answer 7

I would have plucked my nipple from its (baby's) boneless gums and dashed its brains out had I so sworn, as you have done to this

Answer 8

Mostly blank verse as usual. Some parts are in different verse forms. "Double, double, toil and trouble" is in trochaic tetrameter.

Answer 9

persuasion is used a lot