Question

What is the type of figurative language being used in the following quote?

“There’s husbandry in heaven / Their candles are all out” (II,i)
allusion
metaphor
figurative
language personification

Answer 1

This is a metaphor.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this scene Banquo is telling Macbeth that the angels are only illuminating a few stars to economise. The word husbandry actually is a term in Shakespeare's time that has to deal with agricultural metaphors.