Old english sounds like gibberish and has a lot of vowel endings. Compared to modern english where words are more pronounced and not slurred together as much.

http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/Hanks.wav

Middle english drags "R's" and "L's", also adds "ish" to the ends of words.

Again compared to modern english, the words are more slurred.

• Soliloquy- an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself

• foreshadowing- be a warning or indication of a future event

• Paradox- a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be true

• Dramatic irony- rhetorical device, literary technique, or event characterized by an incongruity, or contrast, between what the expectations of a situation are and what is really the case

• Pun- consolidate by pounding it.

• Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

2. Try to rearrange the words in the sentence so it makes sense for you

3. Look for unusual word placements