Which figure of speech does Lady Macbeth use in the underlined words from act I of Macbeth to emphasize that it was Macbeth's ambition to become king?

LADY MACBETH: Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely?
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A. apostrophe
B. personification
C. simile
D. allusion

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Answer:

B.

Explanation:

A personification is a literary device that is used to personify a non-human thing with human characteristics. A personification is a kind of metaphor that is used to personify inanimate objects, animals, and abstract things with human nature.

In the given excerpt, which is taken from Macbeth Act 1, Scene 7, the literary device that is used is personification. It is personification because in this Lady Macbeth compares the hope of Macbeth to a drunk living dress. Since we know that a dress is an inanimate object and drunkenness is human characteristic, so the literary device of personification is used here.

Thus, the correct answer is option B.