10 Things I Hate About You Tone

Grey Walsh

Mrs. Grillo

10H: 1

April 14, 2023

The Teenage Sonnet

‘10 Things I Hate About You’ is an emotionally enlightening poem, sharing the same title with the romantic comedy film directed by Andrew Lazar. In a dramatic monologue, the primary character, Kat Stratford, expresses how she is emotionally involved with her classmate, Patrick Verona. She outlines points she hates about him, when in reality she is proclaiming all of his qualities that made her fall in love with him. She conceals her truth behind superficial aggression, setting up an ironic tone of speech. The poem illustrates multiple rhetorical literary devices through pathos and touching themes.

The poem's repeated rhymes produce itself into a repetitive structure. Kat’s voice

While this may be true, the writing exhausts itself with its amount of rhetorical devices. The speaker begins every sentence with "I hate," which makes her words fall into an anaphora. She makes use of "not even" twice in the final paragraph, making it into a repetitive sequence. "But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you" is an antithesis because it conveys two opposite ideas. The sonnet represents Kat's journey from a boy-hating pessimist to a wounded young woman, as well as the relationship between the movie and its inspiration of Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew. Kat is frustrated at her own emotions, so she throws her frustration at her companion. She is put off by the way he talks to her, recommending something more alarming at the heart of their relationship. For instance, Kat speaks out about Patrick's wrongdoings, “Even worse when you make me cry I hate it when you are not around And the fact that you didn't call,” (Lazar). With more detail, she is practically recalling a public anecdote of her and Patrick’s falling

Contrast throughout the film has been used to highlight the differences between Kat and her sister Bianca Stratford. For that reason, Katherine’s whole relationship was started due to how incompatible she and her sister were, “Katerina has a younger sister, Bianca, who is nothing like her sister. Kat is more confident, mature, careless to what society thinks of her & anti-social. On the other hand, Bianca is very young minded, spoiled, selfish, and a people pleaser,” (Goldman). The film and poem choose heavily on rhetorical devices of contrasting themes. To follow up, Katherine adds contrast by using a paradox. On that ground, she fully contradicts herself, "But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you,” (Lazar). The line is an antithesis since it shows two implications to express thoughts which are differentiating, and imply inverse