In this excerpt from act II 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:—

I have 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 I draw...

(act II, scene I)


personification


apostrophe


allusion


hyperbole