Act+IV

Carly Christain, Shaun Henry, Siobhan Kirk

ACT FOUR __Alliteration__ - “…Broth boil and bubble” (IV.1.1) __Periodic Sentence__- “Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, witch’s mummy, maw and gulf of the ravened salt-sea shark, root of hemlock digged i’ dark” (IV.1.22-25) __Anaphora__- “Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple their warders’ heads; Though places and pyramids do slope from their heads to their foundation; Though of nature’s germens tumble all together…” (IV.1.55-59) __Personification__- “That I may tell the pale-hearted fear it lies.” (IV.1.85) __Symbolism__- “A child crowned with a tree in his hand” (IV.1.87) __Antithesis__- “All is the fear and nothing is the love” (IV.2.12) __Irony__- “And damned all those that trust them!” (IV.1.139) __Chiasmus__- “Fathered he is, yet he’s fatherless” (IV.2.27) __Rhetorical Question__- “Why should I, mother?” (IV.2.36) __Hyperbole__­- “Why, I can buy me twenty at any market!” (IV.2.40) __Apostrophe__- “O hell-kite!” (IV.3.217) __Anaphora__- “New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face” (IV.3.5-6) __Hyperbole__- “This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues” (IV.3.12) __Personification__- “Bleed, bleed poor country!” (IV.3.32) __Juxtaposition__- “To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb to appease an angry god.” (IV.3.16-17)   __Irony__- “And many more-having would be as a sauce to make me hunger more.” (IV.3.81-82) __Asyndeton__ – “I grant him bloody, luxurious, avaricious, false, decritful, sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin that has a name.” (IV.3.57-60) __Pathos__- “Your wives and daughters…could not fill up the cistern of my lust.” (IV.3.61-63) __Apostrophe__- “O Scotland! Scotland!” (IV.3.101) __Rhetorical Question__- “When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, since that truest issue of thy throne…does blaspheme his breed?” (IV.3.105-108) __Asyndeton__- “The King-becoming graces, as justice verity, temperance…courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them” (IV.3.91-95) __Juxtaposition__- “Such welcome and unwelcome things at once, ‘tis hard to reconcile.” (IV.3.138-139) __Onomatopoeia__- “That of an hour’s age doth hiss the speaker…” (IV.3.175) __Parallelism__- “Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes savagely slaughtered.” (IV.3.204-205) __Synecdoche__- “Your eye in Scotland would create soldiers” (IV.3.186-187) __Parallelism__- “I could play the woman with mine eyes and braggart with my tongue” (IV.3.230-231) __Metaphor__- “Let’s make medicines of our great revenge to sure his deadly grief” (IV.3.214-215) __Symbolism__- “A show of eight kings, the last with a glass in his hand; Banquo’s ghost following” (IV.1.112-113) __Allusion__- “For the whole space that’s in the tyrant’s grasp and the rich East to boot” (IV.3.36-37) __Metaphor__- “This avarice…hath been the sword of our slain kings.” (IV.3.186-187) __Tone__- “(Thunder.)” (IV.1.73) __Consonance__- "Slips of yew slivered in the moon's eclipse" (IV.1.27-28) __Simile__- "And now about the cauldron sing, like elves and fairies in a ring" (IV.1.41-42) __Simile__- "What is this, that rises like the issue of a king..." (IV.1.87-88) __Euphemism__- "Our high placed Macbeth shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath to time and mortal custom." (IV.1.98-100) __Inductive Reasoning__-  __Antithesis__- "Where violent sorrow seems a modern ecstasy." (IV.3.169-170) __Imagery__- "When we hold rumor from what we fear, yet know not what we fear, but float upon a wild and violent sea each way and move." (IV.2.19-22) __Consonance__- "Where the flight so runs against all reason." (IV.2.13-14) __Euphemism__- "He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows the fits o' the season." (IV.2.16-17)
 * Son: What is a traitor?
 * Lady Macduff: Why, one that swears and lies.
 * Son: And be all traitors that so do?
 * Lady Macduff: Every one that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged.
 * Son: And must they all be hanged that swear and lie?
 * Lady Macduff: Every one.
 * Son: Who must hang them?
 * Lady Macduff: Why, the honest men.
 * Son: Then the liars and traitors are fools, for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men and hang them up. (IV.2.46-55)