Woaah, cool feature. I really like it. Like really. Basically, you can ask word to autosummarize any paper that you write, notes that you take, thoughts that you jot down. It gives you four basic templates to chose from: executive summary at the top of the document, executive summary without the document, highlights key phrases and autosummarize into a new document. I'm including two examples of summaries Word gave me for the final paper I submitted for my English Shakespeare class last semester. For the most part, the shorter one is more accurate than the longer one
10 Sentence Autosummary
The perfect three is used in the play’s opening passage when Antonio states:
This emphasizes the degree of melancholy that Antonio is, emphasizing the importance of the reason behind his sadness: the rivalry for Bassanio’s. Antonio’s use of triad structure in the play’s opening passage sets the context for what will become the play’s main plotline –three-way relationship between Antonio, Bassanio and Portia. Portia is Bassanio’s “thrice-fair lady,” as well as his new possession.
A little later in the scene, Bassanio also utilizes the perfect three structure when explaining to Antonio his reasons why he loves Portia. “Virtues” is placed in the stress position, emphasizing the importance of Portia’s virtues. This tri-unity or trinity of qualities symbolizes more than just love for Bassanio going further than being just another way of presenting the theme of love – Portia is Bassanio’s sacred trinity. Irononically, Shylock uses a triad structure when he lists his reasons for why he hates Antonio:
Lorenzo beautifully uses the rhetorical power of three when he describes what it is that he loves about Jessica:
Lorenzo uses the anaphoric repetition of “and” at the beginning of each line in which he lists the qualities that he loves about Jessica helps Lorenzo emphasize the importance of each quality, as well as express just how in love and take over by his emotions Lorenzo is.
The Power of Three in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice Word Autosummary
"The perfect three is used in the play’s opening passage when Antonio states:
This emphasizes the degree of melancholy that Antonio is, emphasizing the importance of the reason behind his sadness: the rivalry for Bassanio’s. Antonio’s use of triad structure in the play’s opening passage sets the context for what will become the play’s main plotline –three-way relationship between Antonio, Bassanio and Portia. In Act III, scene ii Portia completely gives herself into Bassanio. Portia is Bassanio’s “thrice-fair lady,” as well as his new possession.
A little later in the scene, Bassanio also utilizes the perfect three structure when explaining to Antonio his reasons why he loves Portia. Bassanio tells Antonio that “In Belmont is a lady richly left;/ and she is fair, and fairer than that word,/ of wondrous virtues” (I.i.161-163). “Virtues” is placed in the stress position, emphasizing the importance of Portia’s virtues. Moreover, Bassanio uses the word “fair” to play with an unusual form of repetition (called polyptoton), in which he repeats uses fair twice, but each time using a different grammatical form. This rhetorical technique makes the passage flow more smoothly. This tri-unity or trinity of qualities symbolizes more than just love for Bassanio going further than being just another way of presenting the theme of love – Portia is Bassanio’s sacred trinity. Irononically, Shylock uses a triad structure when he lists his reasons for why he hates Antonio:
The final character trait that Shylock hates about Antonio is an effect of the fact that Antonio, as a Christian in the Middle Ages, “hates our sacred nation,” by which Shakespeare could be alluding to the promised land – the non-existent nation during Shakespeare’s time that Jews were promised by God. Throughout the text one notices the importance and repetition of the triad structure, which has appeared in rhetorical, grammatical and thematic trinities of the play through the text examples of groupings of three that evoke the idea of the Holy Trinity throughout the play. Lorenzo beautifully uses the rhetorical power of three when he describes what it is that he loves about Jessica:
Lorenzo uses the anaphoric repetition of “and” at the beginning of each line in which he lists the qualities that he loves about Jessica helps Lorenzo emphasize the importance of each quality, as well as express just how in love and take over by his emotions Lorenzo is."
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