Journal Entry-Bell Ringer

1. Journal Entry-Bell Ringer Write about a time when you've done something wrongand it affected others around you. • What did you do? • How did it affect others? • What consequences did you face? • Did you resolve it?

2. Romeo and Juliet Forbidden Love and Family Loyalty

3. The Globe Theater Who is William Shakespeare? www.oppidanlibrary.com/shakespeare.htm www.unplowedground.com/.../travels/travels.html

4. Who is William Shakespeare? Born in 1564 to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare 1582: Married to Anne 1583: Birth of Daughter Susanna 1585: Birth of twins: Judith and Hamnet 1587-1592: Established in London as actor/playwright; first work Comedy of Errors

5. Who is William Shakespeare? 1593: Begins writing sonnets (until 1597-ish) 1594-1596: Some more famous plays Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer Night’s Dream 1597-1608: Best known plays including the rest of the tragedies 1599: The Globe Theatre built 1609: Publication of the Sonnets April 23, 1616: Shakespeare dies

6. His Works Poetry The Sonnets The Rape of Lucrece Plays Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth Comedies: Much Ado About Nothing Histories: Richard III, Henry V

7. The Time Period Elizabethan Era The Renaissance Actors were men only Men even played female roles! Plays were one of the main source of entertainment

8. Three Classifications of Shakespearean Drama: COMEDY HISTORY TRAGEDY

9. Romeo and Juliet is a… Tragedy

10. QUALITIES OF ATRAGIC HERO Possesses high importance or rank Exhibits extraordinary talents Displays a tragic flaw—an error in judgment or defect in character—that leads to downfall Faces downfall with courage and dignity

11. BLANK VERSE Written like poetry But tells a story More free-flowing rules doesn’t have a rhyme scheme or set number of lines, etc. Iambic Pentameter

12. Sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg —called also Shakespearean sonnet Quatrains: a unit or group of four lines of verse Couplet: A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit. The ending couplet comments on the preceding three quatrains.

13. Iambic Pentameter Lines have a rhythm to them 10 syllables Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables Example: He JESTS at SCARS that NEV er FELT a WOUND But SOFT! what LIGHT through YON der WIN dow BREAKS?

14. SOLILOQUY AND ASIDE Soliloquy - Long speech given by a character while alone on stage to reveal his or her private thoughts or intentions Aside - Character’s quiet remark to the audience or another character that no one else on stage is supposed to hear

15. DRAMATIC IRONY Irony—contrast between appearance and reality Dramatic Irony—the audience or reader knows something the character(s) does not know

16. Conflict External Man vs. Man   Man vs. Nature    Man vs. Society Internal Man vs. himself 

17. Figurative Language Simile – comparison using “like” or “as” Her face is like a summer’s day… Metaphor – comparison by saying one thing is another; finding similarities in two seemingly unalike things “I am the East, and Juliet is the West…”

18. Figurative Language • Pun – play on words • "Vandals destroyed many road signs. They really pulled out all the stops." • Alliteration - group of words that begin with the same letter or sound • desiredoth in his deathbed lie

19. Foreshadowing A hint about what is to come in literature or what the outcome of the conflict will be

20. Foil A character with qualities that are in sharp contrast to another character, thus emphasizing the qualities of each How is Mercutio a foil to Romeo?

21. Do Now We will now read the Prologue from Romeo and Juliet. Listen carefully as I read it aloud. In small groups, answer the accompanying questions (front and back). Be prepared to share your answers!