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Alack, a list. Getting to know Shakespeare’s high-frequency archaic sight words. Guess the meaning of:. Good-bye, farewell Soon, immediately Listen Never To seek and gain (seduce). Adieu Anon Hark Ne’er Woo. words in context. “ Alas , then she is drowned!” Alas : Expresses sorrow.
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Alack, a list Getting to know Shakespeare’s high-frequency archaic sight words
Guess the meaning of: • Good-bye, farewell • Soon, immediately • Listen • Never • To seek and gain (seduce) • Adieu • Anon • Hark • Ne’er • Woo
words in context “Alas, then she is drowned!” Alas: Expresses sorrow
Words in context “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” Wherefore: Why Art: Are Thou: You
Words in context “Well, sir, I’ll bring you to our master Lear, and leave you to attend him.” Attend: to wait upon; to pay attention
Words in context “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” “O, coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!” Dost, doth: Do, does
Words in context “List, list, o list! If ever thou didst thy old father love—revenge his foul and most unnatural murder!” List:Listen
Words in context “Fieon’t! Ah, fie! ’Tisan unweeded garden that grows to seed.” Fie:A curse ’Tis: It is
Words in context “Perchance she weeps because they killed her husband, perchance because she knows them innocent.” Perchance:Maybe
Words in context “I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat.” Prithee: I pray thee; please Thy:Your
Words in context “Resolve me, with all modest haste.” Resolve: To answer; to reply
Words in context “Peace, sirrah! You beastly knave, know you no reverence?” Sirrah: A lowly person Knave: A villain BONUS!!! MODERNIZE THIS SENTENCE
Words in context “By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.” Troth: Belief
Words in context “Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench. O, how I long to have some chat with her!” Wench: A female person; varies in tone from tenderness to contempt
Bonus!:weird old insults • Dotard • Old fool • Maltworm • Heavy drinker • Flirt-gill • Loose woman