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Now, look down the center of your noteguide at each of the sentences marked by a diamond. Each one of these sentences will be a pun--when you have filled in the blank to complete the sentence.
A rhetorical wordplay in which the writer surprisingly reveals that words with totally different meaning have similar or even identical sounds
Remember the one thing that Remember the one thing that Shakespeare and other Elizabethan Shakespeare and other Elizabethan playwrights HAD to take care of right playwrights HAD to take care of right at the beginning of their plays:at the beginning of their plays:
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses a _______ to get their attention.
In Hamlet, he uses a ___________ to get their attention.
In Macbeth, he uses ___________ to get their attention.
fightfight
ghostghost
witcheswitches
In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, however, Shakespeare uses _______ to get the attention of this rowdy bunch.
punspuns
Lines 10 and 11
• “workman” verses “cobbler”
The word “workman” implies that the cobbler is a skilled worker; however, a “cobbler” (besides being someone who repairs shoes) is somebody who messes up everything he tries to do.
Lines 13 and 14
• “safe conscience…mender of bad soles”
The wordplay here is on the homophone “soles”—which, when used after the word “conscience,” sounds like “souls”; however, we know that since the speaker is a cobbler, he speaks in reality of the soles of shoes.
Lines 17 and 18
• When the cobbler tells Flavius to “be not out with him,” he actually means for Flavius to not be angry with him; however, when he says “yet, if you be out, sir, I can mend you,” he speaks of fixing the soles of the shoes that are worn out.
Line 21
• When Marullus asks what the cobbler means when he says that he can “mend him,” the cobbler replies by saying “Why, sir, cobble you.” Taken in the connotative meaning of the word, the cobbler is saying that he’s “messing up” the tribune—which he’s doing verbally.
Lines 23 through 28
• The pun in the lines is with the word “awl,” which is a tool. But the way it was heard would have been “all.”
• In addition, he says that he meddles with no “women’s matters,” which is an off-color pun.