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i have a project due 2mor and would greatly appreciate if any shakespear experts out there have a list of figurative language for me on the book macbeth!.!.!. please just list it for me belowWww@QuestionHome@Com


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It would be a monumental task to list every example of figurative language in Macbeth; however, to focus on some of the best-known lines, the play has an unusually high number of apostrophes--words addressed to absent people or to things!. In the dagger speech, Macbeth talks to the invisible dagger and then, when he hears the bell, to the absent and sleeping Duncan!. In the sleepwalking scene, Lady Macbeth says, "Out, out, damned spot!" and in Macbeth's last soliloquy, he uses the same words to the "brief candle" that is life!. In this last instance, he combines apostrophe with metaphor in implicitly comparing life to a "brief candle!."

There are MANY more figures of speech in Macbeth, and unless you're a real speed-reader, I doubt that you'll be able to find them all before tomorrow! However, try this: Google each figure of speech with the title of the play ("simile Macbeth," "metaphor Macbeth," etc!.)!. You should find quite a few more!.
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