Shakespeare Language – take 2
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Shakespeare Language – take 2
Preventing Word Order Confusion and Figurative Language
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Let’s go over Friday’s quiz
• How do can we use context clues and the text’s references to understand meaning?
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Preventing against word order confusion….
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When the VERB comes
before the SUBJECT
• When we see,
Hit I him.
• Instead of,
I hit him.
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• When Lysander says…
“There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee,”
• He means…
When the VERB comes
before the SUBJECT
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• Or when Helena says…
“But herein mean I to enrich my pain.”
• She really means…
When the VERB comes
before the SUBJECT
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When the OBJECT comes
before the SUBJECT
• When we see,
Him I hit.
• Instead of,
I hit him.
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• When Egeus says to Lysander,
• “And what is mine my love shall render him.”
• He really means,Render: to give or to make
(referring to Hermia)When the OBJECT comes
before the SUBJECT
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• When Helena is complaining about being “ugly,”
• “things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.”
• She really means,
Transpose: change
(gross, dirty)When the OBJECT comes
before the SUBJECT
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• Vexation - frustration• Stand forth – come forward• Consent - agree• Bewitched - seduced• Bosom - soul• Feigning - faking• The impression of her fantasy – her imagination• “knacks – youth” – fancy things• Filched -• Ancient privilege of Athens – the laws and rules• Dispose – get rid of• immediately
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Figurative Language in MSND
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• Collied Coal Black
“Brief as the lightning in the collied night”
Warm-up, 3/28
Draw a picture of what
this could look like!
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• Shakespeare and Figurative Language
• Instead of straightforward metaphors…–Extended similes–Buried similes–Elaborate
personifications• …Are common
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What’s a simile again?
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• Simile • One thing LIKE or AS another thing
When Theseus says that the moon “lingers my desires…
…to a stepdame or a dowager long withering out a young man’s revenue.”
LIKE
(stepmother)
(widow)
(makes an
heir wait for
his inheritance)
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Stop and Jot!!Why do you think Shakespeare
makes his characters talk in figurative language instead of just
saying… “I can’t wait to get married, I’m so
flippin’ excited!” like we would?
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• Epic Similes
• Comparisons that begin simply, but then extend into elaborate comparisons
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LYSANDER (to Hermia)The course of true love never did run smooth… Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,Making it momentany as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;Brief as the lightning in the collied night,That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!‘The jaws of darkness do devour it up:So quick bright things come to confusion.
(If lovers ever were matched well)
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True love is momentary…
…LIKE…
…ex
tende
d to
…
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Helena (to Hermia):Your eyes are lodestars and your tongue’s
sweet air
More tunable than lark to shepherd’s ear
When whet is green, when hawthorn buds appear -
(Guiding Star)
(wet)
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Hermia’s eyes are __________ and your tongue’s sweet air…
…ex
tende
d
to…
…which is
like…
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• Buried Similes
• “buried” within the language
• Sometimes seem like more metaphor-like
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Lysander (to Hermia)How now, my love?Why is your cheek so pale?How chance the roses there do fade so fast?(Why is it that…)
What To What?
Is Lysander comparing…
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What
(Hermia’s Pale Cheek)
To What?
(A garden of faded roses)
Is Lysander comparing…Is Lysander comparing…
Hermia (to Lysander)
Belike for want of rain, which I could well
Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes
(Probably) (Lack)
(Give) (Storm)
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What
(Hermia’s Pale Cheek)
To What?
(A garden of faded roses)
Is Lysander comparing…
Hermia Exten
ds to
Because Give from?
But I could…
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• Stop and Jot! What is Personification again?
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• Elaborate Personification
• Giving inhumane things (like ideas and concepts) human qualities
• Example: “jaws of darkness”