Bruce Richmond is the favourite English teacher of the Year 2024 in Maple High School. Hundreds of students join his online writing lessons. Besides reading Shakespeare’s plays, he enjoys helping his students learn how to write. Now he is answering his students’ questions online and offering them some suggestions.
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Use clever names. Well, quite often Shakespeare gives information about what people in a play are like through their names. For example, Romeo’s name means a person being romantic and kind. Benvolio can be nice and friendly. Now think what you can call a person in a play who is easy to get angry all the time? Yes. Maybe Rage or Fury.
Bruce Richmond
Try metaphors. Shakespeare was a fan of metaphors. A metaphor is a way of comparing (将……比作) one thing to something else to show ideas, feelings and more. And the two things usually have the same qualities. In the play As You Like It, he writes, “ ▲ ” What do you think of the metaphor in this sentence?
Bruce Richmond
Eyeball. Lonely. Unreal... All these were created by Shakespeare. If you have an idea that you can’t think of a word for, be like Shakespeare and create your own.
Do you want to write like Shakespeare? You can put your questions here, or write to Bruce at bruce4weeksclass@163.com.
( ) 4. What question might Sam ask?
A. How are all the details of the play put together?
B. Why is the language really hard to understand?
C. What’s a quick way to make readers understand the characters?
D. What’s the most important thing to do to write good stories?
( ) 5. The name “Rage” means “a feeling of being ______”.
A. friendly B. angry C. fun D. dangerous
( ) 6. Which of the following best fits in “ ▲ ”?
A. Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.
B. One touch of nature makes the whole world families and relatives.
C. A fool thinks he is wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
D. All the world is a stage (舞台) and all the men and women are only players.
( ) 7. What might Bruce Richmond suggest to Thomas?
A. Making up new words. B. Translating some words.
C. Learning new words. D. Looking for similar words.
( ) 8. The passage is written to ______.
A. encourage young students to be kind in their real life
B. ask parents to buy Shakespeare’s plays for their children
C. teach young students how to write like Shakespeare
D. show teachers that writing skills are too hard for the students