Key Quotes - 1.1 - Flashcards in GCSE English Literature

What statement contains alliteration about how many soldiers died in the war and who says it?

"But few of any sort and none of name." Said by the messenger. Alliteration chosen by Shakespeare to show that those "none of name" were unimportant to the speaker, and so to society as a whole. A comment on class worth in society by Shakespeare.

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How does Shakespeare use juxtaposing through Leonato?

"How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!"

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What is Leonato's seemingly inappropriate joke about Hero being his daughter?

"Her mother hath many times told me so." Perhaps Leonato is not very clever, or maybe he is awkward in the presence of Don Pedro. Or perhaps he truly does not believe Hero is his daughter, although this seems unlikely.

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What is Beatrice's attitude to love and men in this scene?

"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me."

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What does Beatrice say that proves she has more stamina in arguing than Benedick (and so proving that Beatrice can be more quick-witted than Benedick)?

"You always end with a jade's trick; I know you of old."

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What does Don John say which first makes the reader suspicious of him?

"I am not of many words" - why would he not be "of many words", Shakespeare uses this phrase to present him as different from the other characters.

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Which rhetorical question does Claudio use that may (possibly) be a pun on the word "noting" or "nothing" which had a different meaning in Elizabethan times.

"didst thou note the daughter of Signor Leonato?"

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Which adjective is first used by Claudio in this scene and runs through the play as a sort of motif relating to Hero?

"modest" "Is she not a modest young lady?"

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Which hyperbole and juxtaposing does Benedick use about Beatrice that suggests that they will end up together?

"There's her cousin, an' were she not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December."

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Which adjective does Don Pedro use twice about Hero on learning of Claudio's love?

"worthy". It is clear that he means it in she is a good person kind of way but Shakespeare could be interpreted as using it to hint that others who would have married her may have thought of her wealth (her monetary "worth")

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What does Benedick say about never marrying?

"I will live a bachelor."

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What is Hero?

Leonato's "only heir"

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Which rhetorical question and alliteration does Don Pedro use to show that courtship is about result, not about itself (a cynical view)?

"What need the bridge much broader than the flood?"

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