What are some uses of Poetic devices in this passage?

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It's taken from the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare

" Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme!. (to ROSS and ANGUS) I thank you, gentlemen!.
(aside) This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good!. If ill,
135 Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth!? I am thane of Cawdor!.
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
140 Against the use of nature!? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings!.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man
That function is smothered in surmise,
145 And nothing is but what is not!. "

What are some uses of imagery, Metaphors, alliterations or any other poetic languages used in this!? I can't for the life of me understand Shakespeare!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Personification: prologues are not human, so they can't really be "happy"!.!.!.likewise a heart doesn't "knock" at your ribs!. Personification is attributing human characteristics to things non-human!.

Antithesis: "cannot be ill, cannot be good", "nothing is but what is not", and "cannot be ill, cannot be good"!.!.!.the mirroring of statements that use the opposite of the first clause!.!.!.as in, "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!."

Aliteration: "two truths are told", "supernatural soliciting", "shakes so my single state" and "smothered in surmise" (all which are also "sibilant")!.

Metonymy: "I am thane of Cawdor" (and some might argue that metonymy is a subset of metaphor)!.

Metaphor: "Present fears are less than horrible imaginings"

This should give you a startWww@QuestionHome@Com