Examples Of Malapropism In Much Ado About Nothing

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Malapropism is a literary device that means to mix up a word for another word. For Example, the well known saying “Don’t take things for granted” would read as “Don’t take things for granite” in a case using malapropism. Malapropism is used to create comedy. Dogberry, a police officer, is a character in Much Ado About Nothing that speaks using malapropism quite a lot. Dogberry uses malapropism when he says, “...But truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king I could find in my heart to bestow it all your worship” (3.5. 18-21). What Dogberry is attempting to articulate that if he were as rich as the king, he would give everything he owned to Leonato. The humor in this line is that the mix up of the words tedious instead of rich

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