Working individually or with a group, correct any misuses of quotation marks. If you think a sentence is correct, explain why.
The word asyndeton simply means that a conjunction has been omitted, as when Shakespeare writes, A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, / Muddy, ill seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.
The word "asyndeton" simply means that a conjunction has been omitted, as when Shakespeare writes, "A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, / Muddy, ill seeming, thick, bereft of beauty."
1. Shakespeare's phrases such as the sound and the fury from Macbeth and pale fire from The Tempest have been used by authors such as William Faulkner and Vladimir Nabokov as titles for their books.
2. Shakespeare's understanding of human nature was "profound" and helped him become a "prolific" writer.
3. Many words used commonly today, such as "addiction" and "alligator," were first used in print by Shakespeare.
4. To understand the difference between the words sanguinary and sanguine is important for a reader of Shakespeare because the former means bloody and the latter means optimistic.
5. In the play Romeo and Juliet, one of Shakespeare's most famous quotations is What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.