THE SONNETS, Part 2 (Cue "Mission Impossible" Theme Music)

Your assignment for next Monday, should you choose to accept it:
1) Put your sonnet in your own words, line by line.
2) Sum up the sonnet in a single sentence of your own words. What is it's essential message?
3) Look through your sonnet carefully and mark (circle, underline, whatever works for you) Shakespeare's use of the following figures of speech (a verbal expression in which words or sounds are arranged in a particular way to achieve a particular effect.) :

• Alliteration
  The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words. Some famous examples of alliteration are tongue twisters such as She sells seashells by the seashore and Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
  

• Antithesis
  A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other. An example of antithesis is "To err is human, to forgive, divine."This is actually a double antithesis, to err is set up against to forgive, and human set up against divine.

• Assonance
  The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds, as in the tongue twister Moses supposes his toeses are roses.

• Consonance
  The repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words, as in lost and past or confess and dismiss.

• Metaphor
  A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected. Some examples of metaphors: the world's a stage, he was a lion in battle, drowning in debt, and a sea of troubles.

• Metonymy
  A figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. For example, in the expression The pen is mightier than the sword, the word pen is used for "the written word," and sword is used for "military power."

• Onomatopoeia
  A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds. Examples of onomatopoeic words are buzz, hiss, zing, pop, splat, thump, and tick-tock. "The moan of doves in immemorial elms,/And murmuring of innumerable bees" from Tennyson's Come Down, O Maid. The repeated "m/n" sounds reinforce the idea of "murmuring" by imitating the hum of insects on a warm summer day.

• Personification
  A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes: the sky is crying, dead leaves danced in the wind, blind justice.

• Simile
  A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as." An example of a simile using like occurs in Langston Hughes's poem Harlem: "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?"

• Synecdoche
  A figure of speech in which a part is used to designate the whole or the whole is used to designate a part. For example, the phrase "all hands on deck" means "all men on deck," not just their hands.
  

4) Read the play Measure for Measure. Just do your best. Definitely read one of the summaries (all the way through, Leith!) Think about Who These Character Are so that you can bring a dish INSPIRED by one of them to our M4M Potluck, March 6, 6pm, Althea's house! Map/Directions will be provided at Monday's class

Good luck everyone. I know you can do it. No need to self-destruct. See you on Monday!

Althea