Question

In this excerpt from act III of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which rhetorical device is used in the underlined words?

MACBETH:
It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:
Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak;
Augurs, and understood relations, have
By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth
The secret'st man of blood.—What is the night?
(act III, scene IV)

A.
biblical allusion
B.
apostrophe
C.
personification
D.
simile

Answer 1

What words are underlined? Just copy and paste them

Answer 2

What does that sound like to you, in terms of the question answers?

Answer 3

Because stone's don't move, at least not on their own, and trees don't speak.

Answer 4

Simile is a type of figurative language where things are compared using the words like or as

Answer 5

Biblical allusions are when a literary texts references the Bible

Answer 6

Apostrophe is when the writer/speaker is talking to someone who isn't present, dead, or an inanimate object.

Answer 7

Personification is when things that aren't human, take on human aspects.

Answer 8

Like a chair that smiles, or house that laughs

Answer 9

thanks bro @Shadow

Answer 10

Were you able to figure it out?

Answer 11

yeah bro, you explained it very well.! @Shadow

Answer 12

Okay

Answer 13

Glad I could help