1. What is "blank verse"? Give an example of it from your book.
A blank verse has no rhythm or rhyme. Over yonder light through the window.
2. Interpret these Shakespearean lines using your Shakespeare Packet: Reading Shakespeare's English:
a. "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" [R&J]
a. "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" [R&J]
But wait what time is it?
b. "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." [Sonnets XVIII]
b. "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." [Sonnets XVIII]
You are more pretty than a painting
c. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well." [Macbeth]
c. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well." [Macbeth]
If it was done when it was suppose to to be it would be all good
d. "Who wooed in haste, and means to wed in leisure." [Taming of the Shrew]
d. "Who wooed in haste, and means to wed in leisure." [Taming of the Shrew]
If you try and make people like you, you will wind up with nothing
3. How many creative Shakespearean insults can you come up with? Add "thou" or "thine" to the front of the lists picked up on your way in: "Thou+Column A+Column B+Column C!"
Post your BEST Shakespearean insult as a "comment" below.
Post your BEST Shakespearean insult as a "comment" below.
Thou art a gnarling bunch-backed rabbit-sucker
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