Characters
This character professes he will live a bachelor forever.
Who is Benedick?
This theme is represented by the Hero-Claudio story and the Beatrice-Benedick story
What is love and marriage?
O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.
Who is Beatrice?
Intentional misuse of a word for comic effect.
What is malapropism?
Hero is NOT a virgin
What is false?
Leonatos daughter/marries Claudio
Who is Hero?
This theme is most clear in the wooing of Hero. She is "won" by Don Pedro, "given" to Claudio, "rejected" by Claudio, and then "given" back to Claudio for a second time.
What is the battle of the sexes?
Give not this rotten orange to your friend;/ She's but the sign and semblance of her honour.
Who is Claudio?
In Act 4, Scene 1, our (the audience) knowledge that Count Claudio and Don Pedro will shame Hero in public versus everyone's (character's) expectation that Hero will be married to Claudio.
What is dramatic irony?
Don Pedro and Beatrice were married
What is false?
________ proposes to Beatrice.
Who is Don Pedro?
This motif is best represented by Claudio's accusations against Hero.
What is unfaithful women?
I will be/ horribly in love with her.
Who is Benedick?
When Margaret teases Beatrice by asking, "A hawk, a horse, or a husband?" what figurative language device is she using?
What is alliteration?
Hero and Ursula thinks that Beatrice is disdainful and her sprits are coy
What is true?
She is called "Lady Disdain"?
Who is Beatrice?
This motif is best represented by Don Pedro and Don John
What is sibling rivalry?
But, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.
Who is Dogberry?
When Claudio said, "You seem to me like Dian in her orb," he is using what figurative language device?
What is an allusion?
Don John thinks that he is "evil" because he was taught to be that way
What is false?
_____ and _______ were the voice Don Pedro and Claudio heard coming from Hero's room.
Who are Borachio and Margaret?
This motif is best represented by Benedick and Claudio
What is friendship and loyalty?
Come, lady, die to live: this wedding-day/ Perhaps is but prolong'd: have patience and endure.
Who is the Friar?
I will not be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour.
What is a soliloquy?
Leonato orders Claudio to write a death poem and marry Hero