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Much Ado About Nothing 1 Flashcards

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What is the difference between static and dynamic characters?

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Static characters do not change, while dynamic characters change throughout the piece of literature.

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What is the difference between round and flat characters?

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Round characters are characters that we know a lot about, while flat characters we only know basic details about.

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Correct and Identify: Adieu, be vigitant, I beseech you.

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Malapropism: vigitant

Should be: vigilant

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Significance of title

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Ado means great confusion and noise, usually unwarranted. In Shakespeare’s time, nothing and noting sounded the same. The title, then, could be paraphrased as “Great Confusion Because of Eavesdropping or Observing.”

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Governor of Messina, Hero’s father, Beatrice’s uncle, and the host for the play’s events.

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Leonato

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Leonato’s only daughter, in love with Claudio and wrongfully accused of being unchaste.

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Hero

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Leonato’s niece and Hero’s cousin. She is admired for her wit and intelligence. She is comically tricked into falling in love with Benedick.

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Beatrice

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Hero’s gentlewoman, flirts with borachio

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Margaret

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Prince of Aragon and close friend of Benedick and Claudio.

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Don Pedro

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Don Pedro’s illegitimate brother. A villain who ostracizes himself.

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Don John

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Don Pedro’s illegitimate brother. A villain who ostracizes himself.

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Borachio

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A comic hero with a dazzling wit who has vowed never to marry. He is “tricked” into falling in love with Beatrice.

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Benedick

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A young man and friend of Benedick. He quickly falls in love with Hero and becomes engaged to marry her.

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Claudio

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A local constable who brings the truth to light despite his ignorance and comic blunders.

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Dogberry

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Dogberry’s sidekick and deputy constable.

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Verges

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The local judge

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Sexton

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Believes Hero is innocent, hatches the plot to clear her name, and performs the marriage ceremony of Claudio and Hero.

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Friar Francis

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“There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her; they never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them.”

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Speaker: Leonato
Significance: about Benedick and Beatrice’s relationship

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“Well, as time shall try: ‘In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.’”

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Speaker: Don Pedro
Significance: says when teasing Benedick about how he will soon be married

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“I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain.”

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Speaker: Don John
Significance: admits he is not an honest man but he also freely admits that he is a villain.

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“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me; and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”

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Speaker: Beatrice
Significance: dislike of beards symbolically stands for her resistance to men in general

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“Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.”

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Speaker: Claudio
Significance: says this when he believes that the Prince is wooing Hero for himself

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“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.”

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Speaker: Claudio
Significance: speechless over his love for hero

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“One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.”

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Speaker: Benedick
Significance: about how he will never fall in love/get married

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“…of this matter Is little Cupid’s crafty arrow made, That only wounds by hearsay.”

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Speaker: Hero
Significance: says this when trying to trick Beatrice that Benedick loves her

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“Even she: Leonato’s Hero, your Hero, every man’s Hero.”

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Speaker: Don John
Significance: when tricking Claudio and Prince that Hero is unfaithful

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“Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty?”

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Speaker: Dogberry
Significance: when questioning Borachio and Conrad and commenting on how bad his fashion is

28
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“Oh what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!”

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Speaker: Claudio
Significance: being remorseful on falsely accusing Hero

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“But mine , and mine I lov’d , and mine I prais’d, And mine that I was proud on, mine so much That I myself was to myself not mine,Valuing of her; why, she— O! she is fallen Into a pit of ink…”

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Speaker: Leonato
Significance: how he loved hero until he learned that she was loose

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O! that I were a man for his sake, or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.”

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Speaker: Beatrice
Significance: mourning that men’s words are put higher than a woman’s so she cannot defend hero

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“O that he were here to write me down an ass! but, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.”

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Speaker: Dogberry
Significance: after being called an ass by Conrad, he is insulted

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“…get thee a wife, get thee a wife: there is no staff more reverent than one tipped with horn.”

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Speaker: Benedick
Significance: to Prince about how he should get married

33
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Correct and Identify: Nay, that were a punishment too good for them if they should have any allegiance in them, being chosen for the Prince’s watch.

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Malapropism: allegiance

Should be: lack of allegiance(disloyalty)

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Correct and Identify: You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch; therefore bear you the lantern.

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Malapropism: senseless

Should be: sensible

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Correct and Identify: This is your charge:you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are to bid any man stand, in the Prince’s name.

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Malapropism: comprehend

Should be: apprehend

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Correct and Identify: You shall also make no noise in the streets; for, for the watch to babble and to talk is most tolerable and not to be endured

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Malapropism: tolerable

Should be: intolerable

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Correct and Identify: We have here recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that ever was known in the commonwealth.

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Malapropism: recovered, lechery

Should be: discovered, treachery

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Correct and Identify: Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with you that decerns you nearly.

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Malapropism: confidence, decerns

Should be: conference, concerns

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Correct and Identify: An old man, sir, and his wits are not so blunt as, God help, I would desire they were, but, in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.•

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Malapropism: blunt

Should be: sharp

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Correct and Identify: Comparisons are odorous.

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Malapropism: odorous

Should be: odious

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Correct and Identify: Our watch, sir, have indeedcomprehended two aspicious persons, and we would have them this morning examined before your Worship.

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Malapropism: comprehended, aspicious

Should be: apprehended, suspicious

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Correct and Identify: Neighbors, you are tedious.

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Dogberry thinks Leonato mean rich not tedious

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Correct and Identify: It shall be suffigance

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Malapropism: suffigance

Should be: sufficient

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Correct and Identify: Is our whole dissembly appeared?

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Malapropism: dissembly

Should be: assembly

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Correct and Identify: Nay, that’s certain, we have the exhibition to examine.

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Malapropism: exhibition

Should be: commissioned

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Correct and Identify: Yea, marry, that’s the eftest way.—Let the watch come forth.

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Malapropism: eftest

Should be: fastest, deftest

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Correct and Identify: Flat burglary as ever was committed.

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Malapropism: burglary

Should be: perjury/slander

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Correct and Identify: O, villain! Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this!

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Malapropism: redemption

Should be: damnation

49
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Correct and Identify: Come, let them be opinioned.

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Malapropism: opinioned

Should be: pinion (bound their arms)

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Correct and Identify: Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not suspect my years?

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Malapropism: suspect

Should be: respect

51
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Correct and Identify: No, thou villain, thou art full of piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness.

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Malapropism: piety

Should be: impiety

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Major / Minor; Dynamic/Static; Round / Flat? Don Pedro

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minor, static, flat

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Major / Minor; Dynamic/Static; Round / Flat? Don John

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minor, static, flat

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Major / Minor; Dynamic/Static; Round / Flat? Claudio

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major, dynamic, flat

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Major / Minor; Dynamic/Static; Round / Flat? Benedick

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major, dynamic, round

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Major / Minor; Dynamic/Static; Round / Flat? Leonato

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minor, static, flat

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Major / Minor; Dynamic/Static; Round / Flat? Borachio

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minor, dynamic, fairly round

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Major / Minor; Dynamic/Static; Round / Flat? Dogberry

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minor, static, flat

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Major / Minor; Dynamic/Static; Round / Flat? Hero

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major, fairly static, flat

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Major / Minor; Dynamic/Static; Round / Flat? Beatrice

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major, dynamic, round

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Major / Minor; Dynamic/Static; Round / Flat? Margaret

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minor, static, flat

62
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What is comic relief?

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comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections.

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Reality vs. Appearance

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In the play, the intimate relationships between Claudio and Hero, and also Benedick and Beatrice, were somewhat based off of appearance and word of mouth rather than between the actual two people.

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