In this excerpt from act Il
of Shakespeare's Macbeth, which figure
of speech is used in the underlined words?
MACBETH:
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:=
Lhave thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, In form as palpable
As this which now draw...
(act II, scene I)
O A. personification
O B. apostrophe
O C. allusion
• D. hyperbole