What figurative language / literary devices are in the following quote from Macbeth by Shakespeare? What is the meaning of this
quote? “Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th’ effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry ‘Hold, hold!’” (I.v.47-61).
This quote is an example of personification. Having just witnessed an important part of the witches ' prophecy being fulfilled when he was named Thane of Cawdor, he believes that the rest may be soon be within his grasp. He is overcome by ambition and a desire for the...
The answer among the four choices is the third one, choice letter C.
When Louis Pasteur, a man who started out as a research chemist, let<span> nerve tissue from sick animals stand for a few days, the nerve tissue became weak.</span>
These sonnets are sometimes referred to as Elizabethan sonnets or English sonnets. They have 14 lines divided into 4 subgroups: 3 quatrains and a couplet. Each line is typically ten syllables, phrased in iambic pentameter. A Shakespearean sonnet employs the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
