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What is the type of figurative language being used in the following quote?

“There’s husbandry in heaven / Their candles are all out” (II,i)
allusion
metaphor
figurative
language personification

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Answer:

This is a metaphor.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this scene Banquo is telling Macbeth that the angels are only illuminating a few stars to economise. The word husbandry actually is a term in Shakespeare's time that has to deal with agricultural metaphors.

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