Sunday, October 14, 2012

English Notes 10/12/12


10/12 Class Notes

  • Prose:  Book writing, NO rhythm, NO rhyming, looks like paragraphs (like a textbook), happens during a break down of order, in the lower class, and change in pace/tone (comic switching to dramatic)

-Ex. Lancelet’s monologue
-Ex. Nerissa’s and Portia’s conversation in act 1 (Nerissa is lower class)

  • Blank Verse:  Unrhymed iambic pentameter

  • Couplet:  Rhymed writing
  • Heroic Couplet:  Rhymed iambic pentameter
  • Pun:  Same or similar sounding word being used/understood in 2 or more ways, for dramatic OR comic purposes
  • Malapropism:  Mrs. Malaprop, similar words used in wrong context (stupid), for comic purposes

Portia
-being forced to marry an upper class man (wealthy), her dad’s dead, the suitor has to choose the correct casket (box) of gold, silver, and lead

-her father BOUND Portia to the promise that if the man didn’t choose write than he would never marry again (he will give his word)

-she does not want to get attached to them so she picks out flaws in them, she is trying not to get hurt


Morocco
-doesn’t want to be judged on outside only inside, he says many people have liked him

-compares himself to the BEST mythological characters

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