In Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labour’s Lost, Holofernes, who tediously translates everyday English into Latin, provides a humorous portrait of a ____.
a. pedagogue
b. bigamist
c. patron
d. pedant
A pedant is a person overly concerned with showing off their academic learning, so Holofernes actions' reveal him to be a pedant. However, he is also a schoolmaster and a pedagogue is a pedantic teacher. Therefore choice A is the correct answer.
