Literary devices of Macbeth Act 3

"Before the bat flies thorough the castle, and before the dung beetle makes his little humming noise to tell us it's nighttime, a dreadful deed will be done."

foreshadowing

"Come, night and blindfold the kindhearted day"

personification

"Our time does call upon 's"

personification

"Rather than so, fate into the list and champion me to the' utterance"

personification

"Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day and with thy bloody and invisible hand cancel and tear to pieces that great bond which keeps me pale."

personification

"a heart can speak a welcome"

personification

"And play the humble host"

Alliteration

"There is none but he whose being i do fear, and under him my genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar."

Allusion

"Rain is gloomy"

Foreshadowing

"He chid the sisters when first they put the name of king upon me and bade them to speak to him. Then prophet-like they hailed him father of a line of kings"

Simile

"It is concluded. Banquo thy souls flight, if it find heaven must find it out to-night"

foreshadowing

"Only for then; and mine eternal jewel / Given to the common enemy of man"

metaphor

"We have scorched the snake, not killed it"

metaphor

"I feel like my mind is full of scorpions, my dear wife"

simile

"Naught's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content. Tis safer to be which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy"

Irony