Irony and contrast

The boast and the fact. What we know and they do not. Two things sat next to each other.

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The devices

Irony

The result is the opposite of the boast, or the words mean the opposite of the fact.

Ozymandias says Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Around the statue there is sand. Lady Macbeth says A little water clears us of this deed In Act 5 the water does nothing.

Dramatic irony

We know. The person on stage does not.

Duncan says you cannot read a face. Then Macbeth walks in. There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face Macbeth feels safe because none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth Macduff was cut out of his mother.

Juxtaposition

Two things put next to each other so we see the gap.

Paradox

A sentence that should not be able to be true, and is.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair Good is bad. That is the rule of the play. Macbeth's first words copy it before he has met the witches: So foul and fair a day I have not seen