Question

In which addition, hail, most worthy thane,For it is thine.Ban. What, can the devil speak true?Macb. The Thane of Cawdor lives; why do you dress meIn borrowed robes?Ang. Who was the thane lives yet,But under heavy judgment bears that lifeWhich he deserves to lose. Whether he was combin’dWith those of Norway, or did line the rebelWith hidden help and vantage, or that with bothHe labor’d in his country’s wrack, I know not;But treasons capital, confess’d and prov’d,Have overthrown him.

Above lines contain all of the following EXCEPT:
(A) personification
(B) ellipsis
(C) simile (AND) metaphor
(E) verbals

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter C.

Explanation:

The excerpt belongs to The Tragedy of Macbeth, by English poet and writer William Shakespeare. It is the story of how power can affect people who are seeking it.

Personification means to give human characteristics to an animal or a thing; it also refers to the representation of an abstract quality in human form. The devil receives this device when it's mentioned that he speaks the truth.

Ellipsis is the act of omitting a word or a series of words; there are 2 types and one of them uses a series of three dots, they don't change the meaning of the sentence and they can be placed at the beginning, in the middle, or the end; and the other one just omits the words because they are unnecessary because both parts understand them. It is included during Angus speech.

Simile is a form of comparison between two things and it uses the words as or like, unlike the metaphor, it is an explicit comparison. A metaphor mentions that one thing is the other thing or substitutes it. They are usually confused.

A verbal is a word that come from a verb but it works as a noun or a modifier. Some types are infinitives, gerunds, and participles. There is an example when Angus says "he deserves to lose."