Transcript Shakespeare Pronoun Powerpoint

Everything you want to learn about Shakespearian pronouns
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Replaces a noun
“It, clearly a pronoun meant to refer to an idea
previously expressed, is often used by students to
refer to an idea still in their heads.”
Joyce Armstrong Carroll and Edward E. Wilson, Acts
of Teaching
Type
S. Pronoun
E. Pronoun
Example
Subjective
Thou
You
“Thou are so far before,”
Objective
Thee
You
“To make thee full of growing.”
Possessive Thy
My
“Thy personal venture in the
rebels’ fight,
Possessive Thine
Mine
“Where is thine sword?”
Pronouns set the tone of a piece and establishes point of
view.
The types of points of view:
First Person: (I, we voice) vs.
Third Person: (he, she it voice)
When dialogue is used, a character is using their voice to
convey their opinions so they use the I and we voice.
When we read a summery of a play, the narrator is using a he,
she, it voice to convey the opinions of the characters.
First Person:
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”
Macbeth, Act II, scene I
Third Person:
“In her eyes, all that stood between Macbeth and his ambitons were his
moral scruples-or his cowardice, as she saw it.”
Stories from Shakespeare Geraldine McCaughrean
Jeff Anderson. Mechanically Inclined. Stenhouse Publishers: 2005
Herschel Baker. Ed. The Riverside Shakespeare 2nd Edition. Houghton Mifflin
Company:1997
Geraldine McCaughrean. Stories from Shakespeare. Margaret K. McElderry
Books:1995