My Last Duchess

My Last Duchess is a dramatic monologue set in Renaissance Italy

• 16th Century

• 20th Century

• 12th Century

• Modern Era

My Last Duchess is...

• A dramatic Monologue

• Dramatic Dialogue

• Romantic Dialogue

• Romantic Monologue

The Themes that is present in the poem “My Last Duchess”

• Ownership and Power

• Privilege

• Painting

• Romantic Love

In the line 33-34 "My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody’s gift." What the duke trying to tell?

• Showing the social position of (his 900-year-old name) as equally important to anyone else’s gifts to her.

• He claims that she would say the same kind words or give the same blush in response to all of them.

• Confronting her would be beneath him, and he refuses to ever lower himself like that

• He gave a nine-hundred dollar to her wife

The word "my" is what kind of word, used to highlight the Duke's sense of ownership of his wife?

• Possessive adjective

• Possessed adjective

• A processed adjective

• A processional adjective

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What does Robert Browning is trying to tell us about the Duke?

Who is Fra Pandolf?

• The Duke

• The messenger

• The painter

Who is the narrator, or speaker, of this poem?

• Robert Browning

• the poet

• a Duke

• the Duchess

Where is the Duchess?

• In the room with the speaker

• She is waiting downstairs with the rest of the company

• She has been banished from the castle

• She is dead

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

By the end of the poem, we know the Duke is planning a...

• hunting trip

• party

• vacation

• marriage