Macduff

• "Most sacrilegious murder"


  Alliteration -> Emphasis of shock

  Loyalty to Duncan

  Lack of ambition in contrast to Macbeth
• "O nation miserable, with an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd


  Realisation that Macbeth comitted the murders

  Personification of Scotland, emphasises harm Macbeth is comitting.
• "All my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?"


  Metaphor - Helpless and vulnerable, highlights evilness of Macbeth
• "Macduff was from his mothers womb untimely ripped"


  Declarative - Certainty that Macbeth will die

  Restoring Great Chain Of Being
• The usurper's cursed head... Hail, King of Scotland!"


  Exclamative -> Highlights lack of ambition and loyalty to lineage of Duncan

  "Usurper" -> Highlights disgust of regicide