LESSON
The Valour of My Tongue: Language and Power
Overview
4 Activities- Key questions
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- How does Shakespeare use language and form to reflect the power and development of his characters?
- Key words
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- Ambition
- Blank verse
- Emasculating language
- Emotive language
- Gender
- Heroic couplets
- Iambic pentameter
- Imperative verbs
- Power
- Prose
- Rhetorical questions
- Analysis of rhetorical and persuasive language (AO2)
- Understanding of character and theme (AO1)
- Contextual understanding of prose and blank verse in Renaissance theatre (AO3)
- Perceptions of gender (AO3)
Lesson objectives
In this lesson
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