Monday, September 26, 2011
ACT IV-Using words and context
Find a word, phrase or passage from ACT IV where Shakespeare uses a new word or uses a word in a different way that what you have always used it or heard it. Be sure NOT to use words that have sidenotes where they can be easily defined for you. Tell what lines and page number and then give a brief explanation/definition of the word as you understand it. Then use the word correctly in a new sentence that you write. (First come. first served: once a word is taken it is taken. Be sure to put the word in ALL CAPS in your post so it will stand out in your response.)
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Nathan Leaphart
Pg. 931 Act 4, Scene 3, Line 27:
"I had rather be a dog, and BAY the moon."
Bay- (verb) Howl, I have always heard it as a body of water close to land.
The grey wolf is infamous for being known to bay at the moon on regular occasions.
Joshua Tedder
"Make gallant show and promise of their mettle". It is on ll. 24 and page 927. I think that mettle means reason. Ben came to the student counsel and explained his philosophy on the rotation of the planets which showed a very promising mettle for why the planets rotated.
Kayla Goodman
ACT IV, Scene 2, ll. 17, Pg. 927:
"Nor with such free and friendly conference as he hath of old."
CONFERENCE- (noun) a formal meeting or discussion, but Shakespeare means a conversation.
After the football game, my friend Lola started an odd conference involving her dream last night about flying horses.
Riley Farmer
Page 951, Act 5, Scene 1, Line 91
“To meet all perils very constantly”
Peril-(noun) danger
Kennedy decided to enlist in the army with Cooper even though it would put them both in constant peril and they could be seriously harmed before they come home.
Hali Wilson
Page 910, Act IV, Scene III, Line 26-28
“There is tears, for his love; joy, for his fortune; honor, for his VALOR; and death, for his ambition.”
VALOR: (adjective) Brave, Bold, Valiance
I think valor means braveness or boldness because they are talking about all of the good characteristics Caesar had and bravery was one.
As the knight strode into battle with nothing but a metal breast plate on, he showed great VALOR and leadership.
Ayanna Wigfall
Pg. 933 Act 4, Scene 3, Line 63:
Brutus says, "For your life you DURST not."
DURST-verb
Archaic. simple past tense of dare.
I DURST not go out of the way because I may get lost.
Tamara Price
Page 930 ACT IV Scene 3
Line16 and 17
"The name of Cassius honors this corruption,
And chastisement doth therefore hide his head.
Chatisement!"
CHASTISEMENT-Noun-criticism
My friend is always the one to chastisement someone else, she always thinks she is perfect and nobody else is.
Ashley Whisenant
Scene 3,Page 931, line 28
BAIT- to provoke
Cassius: " Brutus, bait me not"
Bait is normally something you put one the end of your fishing rod to catch fish with.
Science class lead to a PROVOKING discussion, when the teacher asked the arguing students who thought there were really aliens.
Ashley Whisenant
Sorry I typed what it BAIT meant instead of BAIT itself.
Science class lead to a BAIT discussion, when the teacher asked the arguing students who thought there were really aliens.
Alexis Ricard
Pg. 935, Act IV, Scene 3, l. 131
“Ha, ha! How VILELY doth this cynic rhyme!”
VILELY: (adj) Meaning the poet was very out there; he had no place to walk up and start to tell them anything.
In the food court at the mall, an older man walked up to Sami and started talking about random books he had read in the past month, she said that he was very VILE.
Rut spence
Hath cassius lived to be but "mirth" and laughter to his Brutus when grief and blood ill-tempered vexeth him? -p.934, ll.112-114
I believe that mirth means happiness or good.
Emily was filled with mirth when she was informed that she was now cancer-free.
Dillon Holzheimer
P934 act IV scene 3
When grief and blood ill-temper'd VEXETH him?
VEXETH-overtakes, get the better of
I've never heard it used before.
Because my brother refuses to take his acne prescriptions, acne vexeth his face.
Act 4 Pg. 928, Scene 2, Line 47:
"...And I will give you AUDIENCE"
AUDIENCE- (verb) Attention, I have always heard of an audience as a group of people who are watching something, such as a play.
Ellie always complains about not getting enough audience from her family, because she has older 5 siblings.
Carter Tetanich
pg. 934 scene 3, line 107: Be angry when you will, it shall have SCOPE.
SCOPE- (verb) means target or aim.
As the whitetail deer was trotting away I scoped in for the kill.
Caitlin Herron
Pg. 931 Act 4 Scene 3 line 43
"Go and show your slaves how choleric you are.."
CHLOERIC (adj) - Bad-tempered or irritable.
I think chloeric means to have a short temper and becoming irritated very easy. Because Brutus is saying to 'make your bondmen tremble', which I think means scare them. So I think it means to become angry.
My sister is very chloeric when it comes to having patience.
Jessica Binion
"By heaven,I had rather coin my heart and drop my blood for drachmas than to wring from the hard hands of peasants their their vile trash by any indirection."
Act 4 Pg.933 Scene 3 lines 72-75
Wring-(verb-steal
Zack would rather go to jail than wring money from the large vault in small house at the end of the road.
Catalina Zavala
Act IV, Scene 3, Pg. 934, Line 107:
“SHEATHE your dagger.”
SHEATHE-(verb)- to cover or close
I understood it as to put away or retract.
"Having surviving the night with piercing cold with nothing but a itchy wool blanket, Alice awakened to find the world SHEATHED in a cloak of shimmering, crisp slush. "
Morgan Shumpert
pg. 925 II. 15-17
"So you thought him, and took his voice who should be PRICKED to die in our blak sentence and proscription."
PRICKED-chosen; adjective: when I think of pricked I think of someone"s skin being stabbed or punctured.
A large man was pricked from the enormous crowd that had gathered around the corruption in City Hall.
Maggie Smith
"for I have neither writ, nor words, nor worth..."
I think what its trying to say is that that person does not have smarts.
" when the teacher approached the student, he turned because he did not have the writ to answer the question."
Matthew Kilgore
Scene 3 Pg. 941 line 255
And touch thy instrument a STRAIN or two?
Strain-noun- a time, once
He peered across the room at me a strain or few, I was getting concerned if something was up and what it could be
Alena Senf
Pg. 926 Act 4, Scene 1, line 46
"How COVERT matters may be best disclosed, and open perils surest answered."
COVERT- (adj) pressing, important
Glancing to the right and left, I opened the covert door which was hiden behind the bookshelf.
Emily Pilot
"There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.But HOLLOW men, like horses hot at hand"-- Line 24; Scene 2; page 927
HOLLOW- adj.- insincere; meaningless
I'm used to HOLLOW meaning empty or devoid of substance not insincere.
new sentence: You said you loved me, I replied the same- I guess I would have done differently if I had know your words were as HOLLOW as your head.
Austin Wise:
pg. 925 Act 5, Scene 1, line 12
"This is a slight UNMERITABLE man".
Unmeritable-(Adj.)Unworthy, i have never hered this word.
Clearly, Ron was unmeritalbe for the job at the shop, so we had to let him go.
Brooke Tager
Pg. 928, Act 4, Scene 2, Line 26:
"They fall their CRESTS, and like deceitful jades sink in the trial."
Crests (noun)- Heads, but I have always heard it as a family symbol.
Sentence example- The old parrot still had a beautiful crest filled with vivid shades of red, yellow, and green
Haven Hendrix
Page 931 Act IV, Scene III, ll. 29-30
"I'll not endure it. You forget yourself to HEDGE me in."
Hedge-(noun)Wall,Boundary, or protection
I think in this situation, Cassius is tired of Brutus always winning and is telling him that he isn't going to win all the time and that he will win.
Sarah, a lawyer, was able to put up a hedge for her client to protect and defend her case.
Caitlyn Taylor
Pg. 933 Act 4, Scene 3, Line 82:
"DASH him to pieces."
Dash-(verb)Shatter;destroy, I've always heard dash used as a term for running really fast.
My sister and I inevitably dashed my mother's glass window as we were playing soccer in the backyard.
Hailey Newman
pg.947 line 12-15
Act IV scene 1
Prepare you, generals, The enemy comes on in GALLANT show; Their bloody sign of battle is hung out, And something to be done immediately.
GALLANT- brave (adjective)
My cousin Brooklyn had to be extremely gallant when she was rushed into the emergency room for open heart surgery.
Morgan Mims
Act IV, Scene 3, ll.69
"That they pass me by me as the IDLE wind..."
IDLE-(verb); to move across
In the book Dreamland, Caitlin talks about how Rogerson would idle the streets in front of her house at night while she was tryig to sleep.
Garrett Chassereau
Page 950, Act 4, Scene 1, Line 61:
"A peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honor."
Peevish- Poor
All of the rich kids had nice suits, but the young peevish boy did not, so a rich famiy steps up and buys him one.
Joseph Espinoza
Pg. 925 Act IV, Scene 1, Line 1.
"These many then shall die; their names are PRICKED."
Pricked- (adjective) Picked, Chosen
Here are the pricked names for those who went to jail this week.
Marcus Weeks
Page 926, Act IV, Scene II, ll. 28
"But he's a tried and valiant soldier."
Valiant- (Adj) Possessing or showing courage or determination
I knew the pitcher was a valiant pitcher by the way he pitched the game before.
"&& some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs ." Act IV Line 50-51, page 926 . I understand this as Octavius saying, many people have evil deeds in their heart, with a evil grin contained inside of them, because they have bad plans they plan to do .
The girl twirled && twirled, while a group of other girls standing in the forest, SOME SMILED IN THEIR HEARTS, SHE FEARED, MILLIONS ON MISCHIEF .
- Megan Jumer
Will Overton
Pg. 926 Act IV, Scene 1, Line 33:
"His corporal motion governed by my spirit."
CORPORAL- (adj) partaining to the body
The soldier was both mentally and corporally beaten up, after the battle.
Laken May
Pg. 930 Act 4, Scene 3, ll.8
"In such a time as this it is not meet that every nice offense should bear his comment."
BEAR- verb; to bring forth or support. I was thinking the large furry mammal.
I couldn't bear the fact that my grandmother was in the hospital sick, I love her very much and it was a very scary thought.
(IIII.i.ll.61)
"A peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honor."
Peevish- Poor
The peevish boy sat on the street curb begging for money because he had no way to get it on his own.
in act 4 in scene brutus tells cassius "you are yoked with a lamb that carries anger as the flint bears flame..." i have never heard of yoked, but yoked is when two animals are strapped together with a beam of wood to connect them together. and what i think Brutus is saying is that Cassius needs to let some of his anger go
Page 932 ACT IV scene iii (l.49)
WASPISH- adj. angry
Stephanie not amused by her boyfriends practical joke on her was WASPISH and refused to answer his phone calls or text messages for 3 days, she finally forgave him when he had roses delivered to her house with a sweet card attached.
There is no fellow in the FIRMAMENT.
(III.i.58–65)
firmament- place where explained in the bible that separates the water from the sky
I read in my bible this morning that the firmament is very important in a way that it separates us from the heavens.
Josh Swearingen
Pg. 926 ACT IV scene 1 lines 39-40
"Do not talk of him but as PROPERTY"
PROPERTY-(noun) tool, I have heard this word as meaning land owned by a person
This scrap peice of metal is worthless, but maybe if we use it as some sort of PROPERTY it may be useful.
Monecia Bryant
pg. 913 Act 3, scene 2, line 79.
Antony says " If it were so, it was a GRIEVOUS fault."
Grievous-(adjective)serious or outrageous.
In the book Deadline the main character Ben becomes diagnosed with a GRIEVOUS illness and is told by doctors that he has only one year left to live.
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