Page 179 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit
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“My Last Duchess”
by Robert Browning, pages 64-65
Vocabulary
countenance – face
mantle – a cape
officious – flattering
trifling – of very little worth or importance
forsooth – truly
munificence – generosity
1. The poem is written in the first person. What is the name of an extended speech by one
speaker to another character?
2. The poem’s lines do not end at the end of a line, but rather they continue into the next.
What is the term for the use of sentences and other grammatical constructs that do not
necessarily conclude at the end of a line?
3. Describe the Duke’s character.
4. To whom is the Duke speaking?
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