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Much Ado
Beatrice getting tricked by Hero and Ursula that
Benedick is in love with her.

Hero and Ursula talks about how scornful and disdain Beatrice is.

What is the scene about?
What is this scene about?

Give not this rotten orange to your friend. (4.1
Line 29)
Don’t insult a friend by giving him a beautiful orange that rots inside. (4.1 Line 29)

They satirize(?) Beatrice that she is too proud of herself that she will not have any rooms for love.

After hearing their conversation, Beatrice is deceived. She determines to give up her past scornful attitude but instead, accept Benedick's love. Metaphors

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Act 3 Scene 1

Act 4 Scene 1

Oh, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal! (4.1 line
32-33)
Oh, sin can disguise itself so artfully! (4.1 line
32-33)

Literary Devices

Much Ado About Nothing IOC

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CLAUDIO
Out on thee, seeming! I will write against it.
You seem to me as Dian in her orb,
As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.
But you are more intemperate in your blood
Than Venus, or those pampered animals
That rage in savage sensuality. (4.1 53-58)

Ursula
Analogy

Possible extract for IOC
Benedick (although he doesn't appear in the scene) Why did Shakespeare had many analogies to the Greek gods and goddesses? Such as
Diana (virgin goddess of moon and hunting),
Venus (goddess of beauty), Cupid (god of love). Was Greek gods something that people living in Shakespearean era familiar with?

goddess of the hunt and moon; Venus was the goddess of love generally portrayed as fickle and promiscuous.) in her orbit—as virginal as the

flower bud before it blooms. But you’re actually as hot-blooded as Venus, or a pampered animal allowed to run wild.

Possible extract for IOC

We also have a simile here "As chaste are is the bud ere it be blown"

When we are finding literary devices in
Shakespeare, can we refer to

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