Language, Structure & Form feautures - Macbeth

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Language

Oxymoron

Iambic Pentameter

Repetion of a theme - blood, night, fear

Animal imagery - Macbeth as an owl

Similies - 'moves like a ghost'

Metaphors - 'find the disease in Scotland, to restore it to health and to use a drug against others'

Personification - 'make my seated heart knock at my ribs'

Forshadowing - the witches prophesises 

Rhyming couplets

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Stucture

Chronological

Freytags Pyramid

Use of Prose

Soliloquies

Denoument - the tragedy is revealed at the end

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Form

A Play - a tragedy

Follows Aristotles book - a protagonist with a fatal flaw.

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