Characters
Baptista
Katherine and Bianca's father
Pair who plot to get Katherine married off
Hortensio and Gremio
Alliteration
Two or more words share the same beginning consonant sound
"No profit grows where no pleasure is ta'en" is an example of ...
alliteration
What does Tranio convince a stranger to do?
Pretend to be Lucentio's father
The person called "curst"
Katherine
Dedicated servant who pretends to be his master
Tranio
Allusion
something well-known, often a person, place or work of art or literature, meantioned to draw a comparison
After the wedding, who says, "That being mad herself, she's madly mated." What is the literary device?
Bianca and alliteration
Pun
A play on words that creates a humorous effect by using a word or language that suggests two or more meanings
Enjoys poetry, Latin, and beautiful (quiet) young women
Lucentio
Who says, "This is a way to kill a wife with kindness."
Petruchio when referring to his plan to "curb" Kate's "mad and headstrong humor."
Soliloquy
"Where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury." To whom does the metaphor of the "two raging fires" refer?
Petruchio and it's what he says to Baptista about himself as a match for Kate
“If she and I be pleased, what's that to you?” Who says this? And try to remember to whom it is said!
Petruchio says this to Baptista
Marries the widow
Hortensio
This character represents an ideal in Renaissance culture and is a main part of the story's plot and yet has very few lines
Bianca
Deprive her of food, appropriate clothing, sleep, and her wedding banquet. Petruchio also makes her travel in the cold and rain on their wedding night.
Who says:
Person 1: "If I be waspish, best beware my sting."
Person 2: "My remedy is then, to pluck it out."
And is person 2 successful by the end of the play? Why or why not?
Katherine and Petruchio
Grumio versus Gremio
Grumio is Petruchio's servant and Gremio is a much older suitor to Bianca
How are the characters of Kate and Petruchio most similar?
Neither is particularly interested in social norms
Farce
a type of comedy that entertains through exaggeration and situations that are highly improbable, often as a means of social commentary.
What is the major turning point (climax) of the story before the resolution (end)?
When Katherine agrees with Petruchio that it is not the sun but the moon and then again when he changes his mind. She agrees that whatever he says is correct.
Katherine's social standing (how people in Padua view her) at the beginning of the play versus at the end
Katherine is unmarriageable, ultimately a joke at the beginning of the play, but by the end she has improved her social position as a wealthy, respectable married woman