English: Shakespearean “Insult” Sonnet - Collaborize Classroom
English: Shakespearean “Insult” Sonnet - Collaborize Classroom
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<strong>English</strong>: <strong>Shakespearean</strong> <strong>“Insult”</strong> <strong>Sonnet</strong><br />
Your Opportunity to Put Shakespeare’s Words to Your Deepest,<br />
Darkest Thoughts!<br />
Write an original sonnet for someone or something you wish to insult using language<br />
from Shakespeare’s day and age. This can be a character in a book you have read or<br />
television show you watch, a sports rival, academic nemesis, an actual person with<br />
whom you have a legitimate gripe, or a completely fictional recipient. It could also be<br />
written for an object which you dislike or have strong negative feelings for.<br />
You will need to:<br />
• Begin with an interesting title.<br />
• Follow the <strong>Shakespearean</strong> <strong>Sonnet</strong> rhyme scheme (ABABCDCDEFEFGG).<br />
• Include one example of alliteration and one example of assonance (please underline<br />
both).<br />
• Introduce the nature of the conflict, gripe, problem, situation in first four lines.<br />
• Develop this conflict, gripe, problem, situation etc. using at least 4 insults created<br />
from the <strong>Shakespearean</strong> Insult Kit (see the following list).<br />
• Resolve the conflict in a final couplet that ends with a witty twist!<br />
• Include a minimum of 5 words that Shakespeare “coined” or invented, which we still<br />
use today. See list.<br />
ONLINE EXTENSION: Post your insult to the discussion topic I have created. Once you<br />
post your insult sonnet, read the sonnets posted by your peers and reply to at least 2<br />
other students!<br />
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<strong>English</strong>: <strong>Shakespearean</strong> <strong>“Insult”</strong> <strong>Sonnet</strong><br />
Shakespeare Insult Kit: Take one word from each column and you will have a <strong>Shakespearean</strong><br />
style insult!<br />
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3<br />
artless base-court apple-john<br />
bawdy bat-fowling baggage<br />
beslubbering beef-witted barnacle<br />
bootless beetle-headed bladder<br />
churlish boil-brained boar-pig<br />
cockered clapper-clawed bugbear<br />
clouted clay-brained bum-bailey<br />
craven common-kissing canker-blossom<br />
currish crook-pated clack-dish<br />
dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole<br />
dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb<br />
droning doghearted codpiece<br />
errant dread-bolted death-token<br />
fawning earth-vexing dewberry<br />
fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon<br />
froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench<br />
frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill<br />
gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker<br />
goatish fly-bitten fustilarian<br />
gorbellied folly-fallen giglet<br />
impertinent fool-born gudgeon<br />
infectious full-gorged haggard<br />
jarring guts-gripeing harpy<br />
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<strong>English</strong>: <strong>Shakespearean</strong> <strong>“Insult”</strong> <strong>Sonnet</strong><br />
loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig<br />
lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast<br />
mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger<br />
mangled hell-hated joithead<br />
mewling idle-headed lewdster<br />
paunchy ill-breeding lout<br />
pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie<br />
puking knotty-pated malt-worm<br />
puny milk-livered mammet<br />
qualling motley-minded measle<br />
rank onion-eyed minnow<br />
reeky plume-plucked miscreant<br />
roguish pottle-deep moldwarp<br />
ruttish pox-marked mumble-news<br />
saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook<br />
spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg<br />
spongy rude-growing pignut<br />
surly rump-fed puttock<br />
tottering shard-borne pumpion<br />
unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane<br />
vain spur-galled scut<br />
venomed swag-bellied skainsmate<br />
villainous tardy-gaited strumpet<br />
warped tickle-brained varlot<br />
wayward toad-spotted vassal<br />
weedy unchin-snouted whey-face<br />
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<strong>English</strong>: <strong>Shakespearean</strong> <strong>“Insult”</strong> <strong>Sonnet</strong><br />
This is the insult sonnet I wrote to share with my class to model the activity:<br />
Ode to Demon Donuts<br />
The sweet smell of glazed sugar tortures my senses.<br />
Thou tempting spongy guts gripeping maggot pie.<br />
For a laughable moment my will power lapses and my body tenses.<br />
My mouth waters-a world without donuts would make me cry.<br />
Oh, bandit! I hate the monumental temptation you cause<br />
Thou frothy full gorged apple john fritter<br />
At the window in amazement staring at the varied options I pause.<br />
Impossible to eat without creating countless crumbs that litter.<br />
Myself a mangled milk livered malt worm!<br />
Momentarily savage, strength gone, radiance drained, beauty faded.<br />
My addiction champion; my resolve no longer firm.<br />
No choice; frosting on lips, cheeks, fingers; self-respect raided.<br />
A saucy swag bellied hugger-mugger,<br />
Cause of your weakness- no longer fashionable and jeans’ll be snugger.<br />
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