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Words to add to our I&R list!. Engender – to give birth to Amity – friendship Prodigal – spendthrift Demure – affectedly modest or shy Gaudy – flashy Gormandize – eat greedily (voraciously) Heretic – someone who goes against the mainstream views. Words to add to our I&R list!.
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Words to add to our I&R list! • Engender – to give birth to • Amity – friendship • Prodigal – spendthrift • Demure – affectedly modest or shy • Gaudy – flashy • Gormandize – eat greedily (voraciously) • Heretic – someone who goes against the mainstream views
Words to add to our I&R list! • Engender – to produce, give birth to • Amity – friendship • Prodigal – spendthrift • Demure – affectedly shy or modest • Gaudy – overdone, showy, flashy • Gormandize – to eat vorasciously • Heretic – someone who goes against traditional/mainstream views
Double Entendre • Definition: a word/phrase capable of two interpretations, with one usually being sexual. • Examples: • The ladies of the Walnut Street Mission have discarded clothes. They invite you to come and inspect them. • GRATIANO. We’ll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats. NERISSA. What, and stake down? GRATIANO. No, we shall ne’er win at that sport, and stake down.
Double Entendre • Examples: • LORENZO. I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Lancelot, if you thus get my wife into corners! • NERISSA. Why, shall we turn to men? PORTIA. Fie, what a question’s that,/ If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!
Pun • Definition: a form of word play which suggests multiple meanings of words or similar sounding words. • Examples: • Did you hear about these new reversible jackets? I’m excited to see how they turn out. • I used to have a fear of hurdles, but I got over it.
Puns from MOV • GRATIANO (to Shylock). Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/ Thou mak’st thy knife keen. • ANTONIO. Fate shows herself more kind/ Than is her custom: it is still her use/ To let the wretched man outlive his wealth… Of such misery doth she cut me off. • ANTONIO. Repent [regret] but you that you shall lose your friend/ And he repents not that he pays your debt./ For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,/ I’ll pay it instantly with all my heart.
Malapropism • Substituting a similar sounding word for the correct word for humorous purposes. • Examples: • GOBBO. He hath a great infection, sir, as one would say, to serve [you, Bassanio] • Infection SHOULD be affection=desire
Malapropism examples • LANCELET. I beseech you, sir, go. My young master doth expect your reproach. SHYLOCK. So do I his. (Reproach = blame and disapproval, should be approach!)
Malapropism in the real world… • George Bush: Nucular Power Pants • (as opposed to nuclear power plants)
The Rack • The rack is commonly considered the most painful form of medieval torture. It was a wooden frame usually above ground with two ropes fixed to the bottom and another two tied to a handle in the top. • The torturer turned the handle causing the ropes to pull the victim's arms. Eventually, the victim's bones were dislocated with a loud crack. If the torturer kept turning the handles, some of the limbs were torn apart, usually the arms. • This method was mostly used to extract confessions, as not confessing meant that the torturer could stretch more. Sometimes, torturers forced their victim to watch other people be tortured with this device to implant psychological fear.
