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LESSON

What's in a Name: Multiplicity in Meaning

Overview

4 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare’s language contribute to ideas of conflict, confusion, paradox and antithesis in the play?
Key words
  • Adjectives
  • Antithesis
  • Aptronym
  • Biblical allusion
  • Binaries
  • Conflict
  • Confusion
  • Imagery
  • Juxtaposition
  • Oxymoron
  • Paradox
  • Tone

Lesson objectives

  1. Understanding and informed personal response (AO1)
  2. Analysis of language (AO2)
  3. Context (literary context) (AO3)

In this lesson