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avoid overly general intros or conclusions The introduction is the most important part of your essay.  It’s where you most have the reader’s attention, it’s where the reader expects to see your specific argument, and it’s where, in laying out that specific argument, you also do yourself a favor, by providing yourself with a clear…

Name_____________________ General Instructions: Make sure you read all instructions carefully.Write your answers to sections I and II on this exam.Answer sections III and IV in your blue book. I.Very brief answers (one or two words to a sentence at most).5 points. (1 point each.) To what does a “Quarto edition” of a Shakespeare play refer?…

Alliteration – The repetition of initial consonant sounds.  For example: “the wild and wasteful ocean” (Henry V, 3.2.14). Assonance – The repetition of vowel sounds.  For example: “Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies” (Henry V, Chorus 3.1).  (The “i” in “wing” is in orange because it seems nearly assonant.)  Can you find the…

Words that have shifted meanings “keep” = “defend” or “guard” not “hold on to” (1.1.12) “friends”  = political allies and armed men, not just companions (1.1.53) “weeds” = clothes, not unwanted plants (1.1.70-71) Circumlocution and literary play “I am the firstborn son that was the last That ware the imperial diadem of Rome” (1.1.5-6) “the…