I have this sonnet I have to memorize for drama. Thing is it's a Shakespeare thing and I dont even understand it. Please help me think of ways to memorize it. I have to do it this monday when I get back from Spring Break. !_!
if you got it right, read the first and second liines outloud, then without looking.
if you messed the first one up, then keep doing it until you get it, then do the first and second together. keep going, adding a line at a time until you have ti. [ andalixsays's advice column | Ask andalixsays A Question ]
Seriously. Works every time. I memorized half of "To Be, Or Not to Be" from Hamlet in a matter of a few days that way.
It's much easier to memorize something if you have a basic grasp of what you're saying. So look it up, on cliffnotes.com or sparknotes.com
Act it out a little! Dramatize it (literally). Say it with as much emotion as you can muster, be overdramatic. Remember the rhyme scheme (ababcdcdefefgg); it may help you remember, like, okay two lines ago it rhymed with duck.
You'll remember it soon enough. Don't worry about it.
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