opponent to main character , blank verse, repetition, protagonist, antagonist, central figure in a tragedy (Macbeth), simile , symbolism, antagonist, protagonist, draws audience's attention to something e.g. the horror, prose, rhyming couplets, personification, repetition, use like/as - 'look like the innocent flower' , simile , personification, antagonist, soliloquy, something is something else 'out, out, brief candle' (life = candle), personification, metaphor, antagonist, blank verse, giving human qualities 'Glamis hath murdered sleep' (sleep), antagonist, metaphor, simile , personification, character speaking thoughts aloud, blank verse, repetition, soliloquy, metaphor, 10 syllables per line, no rhyme  - most of the play, simile , symbolism, blank verse, antagonist, 2 lines that rhyme - to show Witches are not human, personification, rhyming couplets, symbolism, prose, normal speech - used by lower class characters in Macbeth and Lady M soliloquy (to show madness), prose, symbolism, simile , antagonist, to represent an idea/concept/emotion  - e.g. blood = guilt, blank verse, rhyming couplets, personification, symbolism, a repeated idea or image to help develop a theme , motif , onomatopoeia, a fault or weakness in character, soliloquy, fatal flaw.

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