This video explores the power of monologues in theater, highlighting how characters like Hamlet, Juliet, and Anthony use speeches to reveal their innermost thoughts and emotions. It delves into how rhetorical devices such as repetition...

Pupil outcome: I can write a monologue which uses descriptive and rhetorical devices to convey the emotion of an outsider in relation to Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’. Key learning points: - Descriptive devices are used to help the reader...

People have been persuading one another with their speech for as long as we have records. In many different cultures, aspiring lawyers, administrators, and politicians would have learned the science of rhetoric, of using language...

Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL), describes the tensions between the Renaissance's rhetorical culture and the Scientific Revolution’s pursuit of absolute truth.

Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores the theme of power in Julius Caesar. See how political power can be wielded for good or evil, and how absolute power can corrupt somebody.

Along the way, learn how to...

From a tuning fork, to a speaker in slow motion, this is a close look at what sound is. Both linear and spherical wave fronts are animated. The human audible range is demonstrated.