- 1. What links all the words below? Copyright 2007
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2. Shakespeares language Shakespeare is credited with adding
some 1500 2000 words to the English language. This list includes
words which first appeared in print in Shakespeares writing. Some
are believed to have been created by Shakespeare himself. Others
were in use before he published them for the first time, or are
words that he adapted from words already in use or from other
languages. 3. Thursday, 5th December 2013L.O: To explore and
analyse different types of language in the play. 4. A bit of
background There were no dictionaries until 1604! This means that
language used in that era was very fluid and could be moulded and
shaped. People studied Rhetoric . Poets and playwrights
experimented with words, phrases and imagery. Free to make up words
and to adopt new ones, they could also change meanings of words
too. 5. If a word didnt exist, Shakespeare changed an old one or
made up a new one. Shakespeare had a huge fascination with dramatic
language. He truly believed in the power of words to focus and
light up the imagination, persuade the intellect and move the
audiences emotions. You can apply almost all you have learnt about
poetry to Shakespeares works. 6. Group task Look at the aspect of
language your group has been given. Discuss and prepare to feed
back your findings. 7. ImageryThe use of emotionally charged words
and phrases which conjure up vivid pictures in the mind and
imagination. 'Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an
acre of barren ground'(1.1) 'But that the sea, mounting to the
welkin's cheek / Dashes the fire out ( 1.2) 'Sit still, and hear
the last of our sea-sorrow (1.2) 'Re-enter Ariel like a water-nymph
(1.2) 'This music crept by me upon the waters, / Allaying both
their fury and my passion ( 1.2) 'Nothing of him that doth fade /
but Doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and strange
(1.2) 'Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it, / Him and his
innocent child: for which foul deed / The powers, delaying, not
forgetting have / Incensed the seas and shores (3.3) 'I'll deliver
all; / And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales (5 .1)
Shakespeare uses a lot of Imagery from nature. Look out for it.
What type of imagery is seen in the above quotations.Imagery can
employ: Simile Metaphor Personification 8. Metaphor,
personification and simile My library Was dukedom large enough.
(1.2.128) .................The king's son, Ferdinand, With hair
up-staring,then like reeds, not hair, Was the first man that
leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty And all the devils are here.'
(1.2.213-216) The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder, That
deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper: it
did bass my trespass.(3.3.97-99) We are such stuff As dreams are
made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
(4.1.168-170)Metaphor: A comparison between essentially unlike
things without an explicitly comparative word such aslikeoras. The
endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or
living qualities. Simile: A figure of speech involving a comparison
between unlike things using like, as, or as though.Look at these
examples and identify the techniques that have been used. 9.
Antithesis The opposition of words and phrases against each other.
To be or not to be To be is the thesis, not to be is the
antithesis.There be some sports are painful, and their labour
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness Are nobly
undergone, and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This my mean
task Would be as heavy to me as odious, but The mistress which I
serve quickens whats dead And makes my labours pleasures.
(III.i.1-7)Find the examples of antithesis in Ferdinands speech.
Why does Shakespeare use this conflicting language? 10.
Alliteration, Assonance and Onomatopoeia ................Hast thou
forgot The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy Was grown into
a hoop? (1.2.259-260) Full fathom five thy father lies (.2.394)
Hark, hark! Bow-wow. The watch-dogs bark! Bow-wow. Hark, hark! I
hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry,
cock-a-diddle-dow!(1.2)Alliteration refers to the repetition of
consonants in words of close proximity. It generally refers to the
sounds at the beginning of the adjacent words Assonance refers to
the repetition of vowel sounds within a series of wordsLook for
examples in the quotes from the play. What is the effect on the
audience? 11. Hyperbole exaggeration. E.g. Its so Extravagant and
obvious hot I am dying!Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
(1.2.106)Explain the example in the quotation from The Tempest.
What is the effect on the audience? 12. Oxymoron Two incompatible
or clashing words are brought together to make a striking
expression. Do thatgood mischiefwhich may make this island thine
own forever. (4.1)Explain the example in the quotation from The
Tempest. What is the effect on the audience? 13. Review Exit cards
Write one thing you have learnt today about Shakespeares language
and The Tempest
