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Parallelism/Antithesis

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‘I have hope to live, and am prepar’d to die’

‘If thou art rich thou’rt poor’

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Semantic Field

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Dying honorably and death as a whole ‘Thy best rest is sleep’ ‘Thou art not noble’

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Metaphor

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‘Thy best of rest is sleep’

‘Thus can make him bite the law by the nose’

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Blank Verse

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Speech between Claudio and Isabella when he pleads with her to save him.

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Iambic Pentameter

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Isabella and Claudio finishing off each others sentences to complete lines of Iambic Pentameter

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Imperatives

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‘Be absolute for death’ religious power

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Repitition

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‘Four thou exists on many a thousand grains that issue out of dust; Happy thou art not; For, what thou hast not, still thou striv’st to get’- Tone be prepared to die, you’re running away from death prepare for death

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Form

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Complete power in section due to length of the Duke’s monologue preparing him to die- Any speech where Duke speaks for long time

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Similes

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‘Like an ass wose back with ingots bow’
Duke speech If you’re rich, you’re poor, because, like a donkey carrying heavy gold on his back, you can only carry your riches in life. You will have to leave them behind when you die.

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Dramatic Irony

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‘Bring me to hear them speak, where I may be concealed’ - spy on convo- symbolises whole play as concealed throughout- show corruption

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Lexis

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‘Fetter, Restraint’ Prisoners and Incarceration

‘Leave you naked’ Sexual lexis link to Claudio’s crime

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Sibilance and Alliteration

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‘Sweet sister, let me live!’ Desperation

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Rhetorical Question

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‘Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?’ Rhetorical question= test moral compass of Claudio and perhaps audience- Isabella quote

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Prose

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Prose to provide solution to problem and tells story of Marianna to Isabella so audience understand what’s occurring= different to Claudio and Isabella’s speech in Blank Verse