Quote I.D. (Naming) Literary Terms (Matching) The Female Voice/Emma (S.A.) Themes (S.A.) Plot (M.C.) Vocabulary (Sentences) Renaissance History (M.C.)
Name 2 of Shakespeare’s comedies, 2 of his tragedies, and 1 of his histories. You cannot include Much Ado About Nothing.
Who refuses to marry in the beginning of the play? Benedick and Beatrice
Why is it necessary for Hero to seem to die? Because her reputation has been publicly tarnished
What does the “savage bull” symbolize? A man who refuses to marry for fear of becoming a cuckold
What is Balthasar’s song in Act II about? The infidelity of men
When refusing to marry Hero, Claudio tells Leonato to take the ___ ___ back. Hint: It’s a metaphor. Rotten orange
Name 2 different types of comic relief. Benedick/Beatrice – witty banter Dogberry - malapropism
Explain the two different female voices in Much Ado. Hero - traditional Beatrice - rebellious
Name one example of “good” deception and one example of “bad” deception. What is this theme? Good = Benedick/Beatrice trickery Bad = Don John Appearance vs. Reality
Name two metaphors Shakespeare uses for love. War/Battle Game
What initiates the clash of masculine and feminine worlds at the beginning of the play? Give me one example of this in the play. Men coming home from war Benedick not knowing how to deal with love, Hero getting slandered, Beatrice…
Contrast a character from Emma with one from Much Ado. Emma/Hero, Harriet/Beatrice, Mr. Knightley/Benedick…
Talk about “The Female Voice” in any work we have read except Much Ado. Marji, Antigone, Emma, women in Joy Luck
Describe an instance of Emma- like parody in Much Ado. Dogberry, the watch, Benedick and Beatrice
Name one instance of heightened drama in Much Ado and compare it to one in Emma. Harriet at the ball/Hero being shamed (public humiliation), Ben and Beatrice realizing they love each other/Emma realizing she loves Knightley
Give 2 examples of appearance vs. reality in Emma. Characters’ personalities, love triangles…
“Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.” Simile
“But speak you this with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack, to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a rare carpenter?” Allusion
“I would eat his heart in the marketplace.” Hyperbole
“I wonder that you will still be talking.” Assonance
"That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours." Metaphor
“One word, sir: our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two aspicious persons, and we would have them this morning examined before your worship.” Dogberry
"Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one: so that if he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse.” Beatrice
"Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer: do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms could not discover, these shallow fools have brought to light: who in the night overheard me confessing to this man how Don John your brother incensed me to slander the Lady.” Borachio
"Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny." Balthasar
“Hath no man’s dagger here a point for me?” Leonato
Turncoat (n.) a person who changes to the opposite party or faction, reverses principles
Libertine (n.) a man who is morally or sexually unrestrained
Fleer (v.) jeer, mock
Foreswear (v.) repudiate, renounce (under oath)
Wonted (adj.) accustomed, habitual
Name the two languages most studied during the Renaissance. Latin and Greek
What does the warning on Shakespeare’s grave say? Anyone who moves his bones shall be cursed.
How many brothers and sisters did Shakespeare have? 8
DAILY DOUBLE: According to humanism, what was the ideal situation on earth? Humans reaching their full potential
What is the word that describes interpreting reality through human values and experiences? Anthropocentrism