before we read what do you already know about romeo and juliet?
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Before We Read
What do you already know about Romeo and Juliet?
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Tragedy Characteristics of a Shakespearean Tragedy
Deals with mainly one person, the
tragic hero Story is about suffering
leading to the death of the
hero. Person of great importance, affecting a
whole nation or empire
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Tragedy: other usual elements
Hero experiences a sudden reversal of fortune.
Fate of hero is triggered by a tragic flaw.
Much of plot seems to happen by “chance”
Feels as though something was wasted in the story
Sad ending, but there is something good at the end.
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As you read Romeo & Juliet you will be reading both poetry and
prose
The common people—and sometimes Mercutio, when he is joking—speak in prose.
Most of the other characters speak in poetry.
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What is prose?language that
is not poetry: writing or speech in its normal continuous form, without the rhythmic or visual line structure of poetry
“As soon as we had finished eating, Doodle and I hurried off to Horsehead Landing. Time was short, and Doodle still had a long way to go.”
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What is poetry?
literary work written in metrical form, a rhythmical composition, verse
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
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iambic pentameter• Iambic is a two syllable
unit following an unstressed/stressed pattern
• Pentameter means each line has 5 units/feet of iambic rhythm
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iambic pentameter•For example:
I know the way to go is over there.
•How many syllables are in this sentence?
•What does iambic mean again?
u
• So how many units or feet are there in this sentence?
Iknow theway togo iso verthere. *
syllable2
syllable1
UNIT
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iambic pentameterShall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more
temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of
May
And summer’s lease hath all too short a
date.
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quickwrite:
• What is your idea of your perfect boyfriend/girlfriend?
• What is your parents’ idea of your perfect boyfriend/girlfriend?
• How are they similar? Different?
• You may bullet point or draw a Venn Diagram.
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The Prologue
• Introduces the play:
•Characters
•Setting
•Ending
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First Quatrain: Two families who are both respected have an old grudge against each other. The feud is violent and citizens of Verona are killing each other.
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Second Quatrain:
The families’ children fall in love and kill themselves. Their deaths are what end the feud between the two families.
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Third Quatrain:For the next two hours we will watch how they fall in love and their families feud (which only their deaths could end).
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Final Couplet
Listen carefully and the actors will show you the whole story.
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What is the tone of the prologue?
•The tone is dark and ominous or gloomy.
•“Civil blood” “death” “rage” “star-cross’d” “foes” “unclean” “ancient grudge”
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Pun
• Joke made by playing with the meanings of words.
• Can be words that are spelled the same but have different meaning like “battery”
• Can be words that sound the same but are spelled differently like “no” and “know”
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Pun example
• I used to be a doctor, but then I lost patients
• This duck walks into a bar and orders a beer. "Four bucks," says the bartender. "Put it on my bill."
• Two peanuts walk into a bar. One was a salted.
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