Much Ado About Nothing — Quotes

11 quotes — Love (Conventional vs Unconventional) with full 6-part analysis

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1
STAGNATE

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me

HYPERBOLIC SIMILEDRAMATIC IRONY

Beatrice · Act 1, Scene 1

3
STAGNATE

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever

PROLEPTIC IRONYCHORIC FUNCTION

Balthasar's Song · Act 2, Scene 3

6
PROGRESS

I do love nothing in the world so well as you — is not that strange?

LITOTES & SELF-INTERROGATIONPROSE vs VERSE — REGISTER SHIFT

Benedick · Act 4, Scene 1

7
PROGRESS

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were ma…

PARAPROSDOKIAN / COMIC REVERSALDRAMATIC IRONY

Benedick · Act 2, Scene 3

8
PROGRESS

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably

PARADOX / OXYMORONIC WITMETALINGUISTIC COMMENTARY

Benedick · Act 5, Scene 2

9
PROGRESS

Man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion

EPIGRAMMATIC UNIVERSALISMTHEMATIC SUMMATION / CHORUS FUNCTION

Benedick · Act 5, Scene 4

10
PROGRESS

Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu! No glory lives behind the back of s…

APOSTROPHE & PERSONIFICATIONVERSE SHIFT — PROSE TO VERSE

Beatrice · Act 3, Scene 1

11
PROGRESS

Of this matter is little Cupid's crafty arrow made, that only wounds by hearsay

MYTHOLOGICAL ALLUSION / PERSONIFICATIONPROLEPTIC IRONY / FORESHADOWING

Hero · Act 3, Scene 1

15
STAGNATE

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say…

PARADOX / PETRARCHAN CONVENTIONDRAMATIC IRONY / PROLEPTIC CONTRAST

Claudio · Act 2, Scene 1

17
REGRESS

Beauty is a witch, against whose charms faith melteth into blood

DEMONIC IMAGERY / MISOGYNISTIC TROPESEMANTIC FIELD OF ENCHANTMENT

Claudio · Act 2, Scene 1

22
STAGNATE

There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her; they never meet b…

OXYMORON / EXTENDED MILITARY METAPHOREXPOSITORY DIALOGUE / DRAMATIC FRAMING

Leonato · Act 1, Scene 1