My Last Duchess

Question 1

Quote 1: MINE MINE MINE

Answer 1

“My last duchess” - possessive pronoun ‘my’

Question 2

Quote 2: art ______

Answer 2

‘Piece’ - objectification

Question 3

Quote 3: wilt plees you oh pleasey weasey

Answer 3

“Wilt please you sit and look at her?” - power - not a question

Question 4

Quote 4: curtains

Answer 4

‘(Since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I)’ - controlling

Question 5

Quote 5: dursty bastard

Answer 5

‘If they durst’ - durst = dare

Question 6

Quote 6: duke establishing his superiority to the guy

Answer 6

“Sir” - establishing his superiority (social standing)

Question 7

Quote 7: chanceee?!??!?

Answer 7

“Chanced to say” - paranoid

Question 8

Quote 8: throt

Answer 8

“Her throat” - conveying / hinting at her death later

Question 9

Quote 9: duke being an uncle H-h-howe?!??

Answer 9

‘- how shall I say?-‘ can’t express his feelings / struggles to communicate

Question 10

Quote 10: babe is looking wverywhare

Answer 10

“Her looks went everywhere” - paranoid

Question 11

Quote 11: officiousness

Answer 11

“Some officious fool” - how he sees nice/ kind people

Question 12

Quote 12: muulleeede

Answer 12

“The white mule” - impure bred animal silly

Question 13

Quote 13: duke really likes his name

Answer 13

“ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years old name with anybody’s gift” - pride

Question 14

Quote 14: stoopy stoop

Answer 14

“Who’d stoop” - above them

Question 15

Quote 15: bro has no skills in speech

Answer 15

“-(which I have not)-“ skills in speech of duke

Question 16

Quote 16: she doesn’t let herself be mansplained

Answer 16

“If she let herself be lessoned so” freedom “let herself” be lectured

Question 17

Quote 17: I do neva stoop

Answer 17

“Be some Stooping and I choose never to stoop” - above others

Question 18

Quote 18: my penis right now

Answer 18

“This grew” - anger

Question 19

Quote 19: ordering execution

Answer 19

“I gave commands” - hints at execution

Question 20

Quote 20: no more smileys

Answer 20

“Then all smiles stopped together” - control

Question 21

Quote 21:superficial Neptune thing

Answer 21

“Notice Neptune , though taming a seahorse” - analogy for him and his late duchess

Question 22

Quote 22: duke flexes cast in bronzx

Answer 22

“Cast in bronze for me” - flexing - importance

Question 23

Context:

Answer 23

Victorian poet, marriage market prevalence , often wrote dramatic monologues with sinister characters, strong interest in Italy and resonance period

Question 24

Form:

Answer 24

Dramatic monologue

Question 25

Poet:

Answer 25

Ferrara

Question 26

Techniques

Answer 26

Enjambment- lack of control
Sporadic structure- erratic nature (dangerous)
Iambic pentameter - two sides of him , stressed and unstressed