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7. Following are quotations from some of Shakespeare’s most famous works. Work collaboratively in your expert group to analyze your assigned quotes. Diffuse the text when necessary, and mark the text to indicate specific examples of Shakespeare’s use of diction, syntax, and rhetorical devices.
Model Analysis
Group 1
“The King’s name is a tower of strength.”
metaphor; just saying the King’s name creates a sense of strength
“Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.”
metaphor; he is naturally kind hearted
Sonnet 18: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:”
Hamlet: “I will speak daggers to her, but use none.” (Act III, Scene II)
Hamlet: “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” (Act IV, Scene V)
As You Like It: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” (Act II, Scene VII)
The Taming of the Shrew: “Out of the jaws of death.” (Act III, Scene IV)
My Notes
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