Drag each label to the correct location on the image. Each label can be used more than once. Match the figures of speech to the excerpts from Macbeth in which they appear.

1. personification
2. apostrophe

Explanation:

In the first section, we can see that sleep was portrayed as something that was being murdered. Sleep is inanimate, it has no life and therefore cannot be killed, which is a condition that only happens to living beings. When this happens, we claim that the personification is being used.

In the second section we see that Lady Macbeth sees something that does not exist and speaks of something that is not there, as if she were. This is an example of an apostrophe, which is the figure of speech used when a speaker refers directly to something that does not exist or to someone who is dead as if he were alive.

In the third excerpt we see again the use of personification through the reference to the newborn baby who is without any clothes, completely naked.

it is the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story. the exposition will often have information about events that happened before the story began. the exposition is often the very first part of the plot.