1. Shakespeare Language – take 2 Preventing Word Order Confusion and Figurative Language

2. Let’s go over Friday’s quiz How do can we use context clues and the text’s references to understand meaning?

3. Preventing against word order confusion….

4. When the VERB comes before the SUBJECT When we see, Hit I him. Instead of, I hit him.

5. When Lysander says… “There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee,” He means… When the VERB comes before the SUBJECT

6. Or when Helena says… “But herein mean I to enrich my pain.” She really means… When the VERB comes before the SUBJECT

7. When the OBJECT comes before the SUBJECT When we see, Him I hit. Instead of, I hit him.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Figurative Language in MSND

12. Collied Coal Black “Brief as the lightning in the collied night” Warm-up, 3/28 Draw a picture of what this could look like!

13. Shakespeare and Figurative Language Instead of straightforward metaphors… – Extended similes – Buried similes – Elaborate personifications …Are common

14. What’s a simile again?

15. 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)

16. 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?

17. Epic Similes Comparisons that begin simply, but then extend into elaborate comparisons

18. 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)

19. True love is momentary … …LIKE… …extended to…

20. 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)

21. Hermia’s eyes are ________ __ and your tongue’s sweet air… …extended to… …which is like…

22. Buried Similes “buried” within the language Sometimes seem like more metaphor-like

23. 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…

24. What (Hermia’s Pale Cheek) What (Hermia’s Pale Cheek) To What? (A garden of faded roses) To What? (A garden of faded roses) 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)

25. What (Hermia’s Pale Cheek) What (Hermia’s Pale Cheek) To What? (A garden of faded roses) To What? (A garden of faded roses) Is Lysander comparing… Hermia Extends to Because Give from? But I could…

26. Stop and Jot! What is Personification again?

27. Elaborate Personification Giving inhumane things (like ideas and concepts) human qualities Example: “jaws of darkness”