Full Anthology - My Last Duchess: Grammar Exercises

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Full Anthology - My Last Duchess: Grammar Exercises

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Extract from 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning

That sonnet, I think, was written over a hundred years ago, by a poet whose name is lost to history. Yet it contains a vivid image of a woman, speaking with a voice that seems both tender and commanding:

'Her looks went everywhere. / Her eyes had all the beauty of the dawn, / Her lips were soft as petals, yet she was gone, / And all her grace was lost to her, now forlorn…'

The duke proceeds to describe his late wife in a tone that is both possessive and authoritative. His words reveal his view of her as a possession, and his attitude towards her behaviour, which he deemed inappropriate.

In this soliloquy, Browning employs a range of grammatical and literary devices to convey the duke’s character and emotions, including intricate sentence structures, pauses, and shifts in tone.

1.
Identify the literary device used in the phrase 'Her lips were soft as petals'.
[2 marks]
2.
Explain the grammatical structure of the sentence: 'Her looks went everywhere.' Is it simple, compound, or complex?
[2 marks]
3.
Describe the function of the comma in the phrase: 'Her eyes had all the beauty of the dawn, / Her lips were soft as petals'.
[2 marks]
4.
Identify and analyse the sentence structure of the line: 'And all her grace was lost to her, now forlorn…'.
[4 marks]
5.
What is the tone conveyed through Browning's use of the phrase 'her looks went everywhere'?
[2 marks]
6.
Identify the grammatical device in the phrase: 'His words reveal his view of her as a possession'.
[2 marks]
7.
How does Browning's use of punctuation create pauses and influence the mood in the extract?
[2 marks]
8.
Describe the overall grammatical tone of Browning’s language in this extract.
[2 marks]

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