Quiz Guide, Ghose 76-87

• Give an example of when a character uses imagery that "inadvertantly" undermines her message.
• What is odd about the "pleached bower/honeysuckle/ princes" simile Hero uses?
• What does the book call the "controlling metaphor" and why?
• Give an example of how a minor character uses this "controlling metaphor."
• The book says that the "controlling metaphor" was explored in an "explosion of plays." Give an example.
• What does the play tell us about a character named "Deformed"? What is his crime?
• What "pattern...determines Claudio's personality"?
• How does Shakespeare use Claudio's "rhetorical figures" to shape our attitude toward him?

Essay: Choose one.

• Beatrice and Hero are represented as opposites in a popular early modern debate about whether talkative or silent women were best ("shrews" or "sheep"). Describe a scene in which Hero is shown as silent and Beatrice is shown to be talkative.
• Describe a scene in social climbing is either mentioned or satirized.
• In a play about advantageous marriages, why is the villain (literally) a bastard or illegitimate?
• From your reading, in what way is the Dogberry/Verges comic subplot supposed to be funny?