Shakespeare's macbeth, act v scene 5 macbeth. she should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word. tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. out, out, brief candle! life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. what does the phrase "creeps in this petty pace" refer to? (5 points) death fools pace life

It refers to Death.

This famous soliloquy is referring to the passing of time, its meaninglessness and our human incapacity to apprehend life as something that would make sense. Instead, life proves to be a story “told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. Death then creeps in, slowly but certainly, in every human action, day after day, without recourse to any form of solace. Death is not only inevitable, it is our destiny.  

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explanation:

while his customary satire is present in mark twain's short story "the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county," there is a cloaking of this satire as twain's narrator is not directly involved. another literary device that you could build a thesis around is the use by twain of hyperbole.

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