Do you believe in love at first sight?

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Opposition .......Antithesis

ANTITHESIS noun, plural antitheses [an-tith-uh-seez]

1. opposition; contrast:
the antithesis of right and wrong.
2.the direct opposite (usually followed by of or to):
Her behavior was the very antithesis of cowardly.
3. Rhetoric.
the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in
“Give me liberty or give me death.”.
the second sentence or part thus set in opposition, as “or give me death.”. Dictionary.reference.com

OPPOSITION noun
1. the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
2. antagonism or hostility.
3. a person or group of people opposing, criticizing, or protesting something, someone, or another group.
4. the major political party opposed to the party in power and seeking to replace it.
5. the act of placing opposite, or the state or position of being placed opposite.
6.the act of opposing, or the state of being opposed by way of comparison or contrast.
7. Logic - the relation between two propositions that have the same subject and predicate, but which differ in quantity or quality, or in both.
the relation between two propositions in virtue of which the truth or falsity of one of them determines the truth or falsity of the other.

Find examples of Ferdinand's use of oppositions or antithesis.

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• There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off
• some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone
• most poor matters Point to rich ends
• The mistress which I serve ... makes my labours pleasures

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• The mistress which I serve ... makes my labours pleasures
• she is Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed
• 'tis fresh morning with me When you are by at night.

Watch Act 3 Scene 2

A harpy is a creature from Greek mythology.
They were ugly, evil and bad-tempered, with the head and body of a woman and the tail, wings and claws of a bird.
These horrible creatures were usually associated with wind, ghosts and the underworld.

Find quotations to illustrate Miranda and Ferdinand’s feelings for each other. In pairs one should find quotations for Miranda and the other for Ferdinand.

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