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  1. Apr 2016
    1. to recite

      A- recite and quite B- love and prove C- lie and I D- desert and impart E- this and is F- untrue and nor you G- forth and worth

    2. That you for love speak well of me untrue,

      unstressed; that, for, speak, of, and un from untrue stressed: you, love, well, me, and true from untrue This is an effective way to use iambic pentameter because it is showing that she is making more of him than he actually is by making the line flow. The poet is saying that if she lies about him then she never really loved him.

    3. To do more for me than mine own desert

      The stressed syllables are to, more, me, mine, and des from desert. The unstressed syllables are do, for, than, own, ert from desert. This is important because this is showing how it's important for the lover not to do more than what he is worth because people will figure out he is lying.

    4. worth.

      This line is an effective use of the iambic pentameter because it makes the volta flow faster and seem not as harsh. unstressed: and, should, to, things, and thing from nothing stressed: so, you, love, no from nothing, and worth

    5. And so should you, to love things nothing worth.

      This sonnet is about how when the poet dies then his lover should not try and carry on his name even though he is not worthy enough. The volta in the poem is in the last line when he tells his lover that she should be ashamed for loving someone with no worth. This is significant because it's showing how they fell in love without even knowing each other's worth nor appreciating it.

    6. impart

      make known, communicate

    7. niggard

      A stingy or ungenerous person

    8. devise

      plan

    1. The National Guard was called out.

      Connection: Jim Crow. In Jim Crow laws, The National Guard had to be called to protect kids going to and from school. In this article, The National Guard was called to protect citizens from a riot.

    2. Greenblatt makes a double linguistic connection between Shakespeare and the US

      My opinion on this topic of double linguistic is that after reading some of Shakespeare's work, we adapted to his words and used them.

    3. The Pilgrim Fathers set sail just two years before actors from Shakespeare’s Globe clubbed together to commission a volume of his plays.

      If actors performed Shakespeare's plays two years after the Pilgrims set sail, how did his ideas transfer over to America?