Thursday, January 15, 2015

Assignment for Thursday, January 15

This assignment is slightly different than what I described in class. In Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing , find examples of three of the following kinds of prose. Then, identify language techniques employed in those examples (alliteration or other kinds of repetition, figurative language, allusions, puns or other kinds of word play, etc.) and explain the effects of those techniques.

1. Young women talking together excitedly or irritably; a young woman flirting and making jokes with undertones.

2. Young men joking uneasily; drunken men speaking cynically; old men speaking disapprovingly to a young woman.

3. A man choosing his words carefully so as not to offend his superior; a man offended by his superior but trying to hide it. 

4, A man desperately trying to make sense of his own sudden and overwhelming beliefs.


Be sure to write the original sentence(s) and refer to its scene and line numbers.