Question

Which phrase in this excerpt from act IV, scene III, of Shakespeare’s Macbeth contains personification?
Be not offended:
I speak not as in absolute fear of you.
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;
It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds. I think, withal,
There would be hands uplifted in my right;
And here, from gracious England, have I offer
Of goodly thousands: but, for all this,
When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,
Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country
Shall have more vices than it had before;
More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever,
By him that shall succeed.
A. I speak
B. I think
C. It weeps, it bleeds
D. Have I offer
E. I shall tread
F. Wear it on my sword

Answer 1

Answer:

Which phrase in this excerpt from act IV, scene III, of Shakespeare’s Macbeth contains personification?

Be not offended:

I speak not as in absolute fear of you.

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;

It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash

Is added to her wounds. I think, withal,

There would be hands uplifted in my right;

And here, from gracious England, have I offer

Of goodly thousands: but, for all this,

When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,

Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country

Shall have more vices than it had before;

More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever,

By him that shall succeed.

A. I speak

B. I think

C. It weeps, it bleeds

D. Have I offer

E. I shall tread

F. Wear it on my sword

Answer 2

Answer:

it weeps, it bleeds