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LESSON

The Valour of My Tongue: Language and Power

Overview

4 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare use language and form to reflect the power and development of his characters?
Key words
  • Ambition
  • Blank verse
  • Emasculating language
  • Emotive language
  • Gender
  • Heroic couplets
  • Iambic pentameter
  • Imperative verbs
  • Power
  • Prose
  • Rhetorical questions

Lesson objectives

  1. Analysis of rhetorical and persuasive language (AO2)
  2. Understanding of character and theme (AO1)
  3. Contextual understanding of prose and blank verse in Renaissance theatre (AO3)
  4. Perceptions of gender (AO3)

In this lesson