Name _____________________________________ Date _________________ Activity 1: Masterful Reading of Lines 34-43 Focus on how Browning develops the Duke’s character. Jot your ideas about the Duke below. Activity 2: Independent Work with Lines 34–43 Reread lines 34–43 of “My Last Duchess,” from “Who’d stoop to blame / This sort of trifling?” to “E’en then there would be some stooping, and I choose / Never to stoop.” Annotate the text and answer the following questions. Consider the definition of trifling. To what “trifling” (line 35) is the Duke referring? How does the Duke describe his response to the Duchess’s “trifling” (lines 34–35)? What does it mean to stoop? What does the word mean in this context? What does the word “stoop” suggest about how the Duke views the Duchess?
Name _____________________________________ Date _________________ Activity 1: Masterful Reading of Lines 34-43 Focus on how Browning develops the Duke’s character. Jot your ideas about the Duke below. Activity 2: Independent Work with Lines 34–43 Reread lines 34–43 of “My Last Duchess,” from “Who’d stoop to blame / This sort of trifling?” to “E’en then there would be some stooping, and I choose / Never to stoop.” Annotate the text and answer the following questions. Consider the definition of trifling. To what “trifling” (line 35) is the Duke referring? How does the Duke describe his response to the Duchess’s “trifling” (lines 34–35)? What does it mean to stoop? What does the word mean in this context? What does the word “stoop” suggest about how the Duke views the Duchess?
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