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Flashcards in Act 3 Scene 2 Terminology Deck (13)
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Heroic Couplet’

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‘That we were all, as some would seem to be/From our faults, as faults from seeming free’ Wishes everyone free from fault

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Dramatic Irony/Foreshadowing

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‘I know not where but wheresoever I wish him well’
‘But indeed i can do you little harm: you’ll foreswear this again’
Lucio doesn’t know he is speaking to the Duke

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Antimetabole

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‘Love talks with better knowledge and knowledge with dearer love’ If you loved him= would know him better and if knew him better wouldn’t speak like that
‘Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at anything which professed to make him rejoice’ Escalus like see others happy

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Foreshadowing- Hanging

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‘I’ll be hanged first’

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Soliloquy

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‘No might nor greatness in morality’ In blank verse again from pros= After Lucio exits stage
Ends alone on stage rhyming soliloquy in iambic pentameter and reference to bed trick

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Rhyming Couplet

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Iambic Tetrameter- Used to signify turning point- ‘His old betrothed but despis’d/so disguise shall be by th’disguis’d etc’

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Imperative

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‘Go mend, go mend’ shows religious power

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Lexis

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Lucio used low frequency lexis which Pompey doesn’t understand show social power

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Humor

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Duke talking to Lucio as if he is friar not the Duke which would provide humor to an audience

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Metaphor

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Lucio monologue- ‘Filling a bottle with a tun-dish, The Duke would eat mutton on Fridays’

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Tripartite list/Sibilance

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‘A scholar, a statesman and a soldier’ Duke defending name using a tripartite list= build drama and humor

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Prose

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Mistress Overdone speaks in prose due to low status characterization

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Questions

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‘Of what disposition was the Duke’ build dramatic tension the audience no more than characters