"Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or hell."

This quote uses the literary element of a couplet because, the words knell and hell rhyme creating a sentence that sticks out to the audience and has more importance than the monologue before it in Macbeth's speech. It is almost as if it is a separate idea to what Macbeth has already said. Shakespeare wanted to emphasize the ringing of a bell to signify when Macbeth was going to murder Duncan and how dramatic it would be, since it would be offstage and out of sight. By the end of this sentence, we now know that Macbeth has decided to kill Duncan and proceeds to do so.

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