Language

Language: Chart of pauses:
 * Shakespear is the language of poetry. Shakespear wrote three times as many lines in his poetry than he did is his prose (Non-poems).
 * Metaphors and similes compare two things to help the adience/reader deepen their understanding of the thing/person being compared in the text (i.e. a metaphor is "He //was// a rat" this person was compared to as a rat. A simile is "He was //like// a rat" is saying he holds characteristics like a rat.
 * The value of the metaphor and simile is the speed at which we connect.
 * Extended metaphors can spread over dozens of lines. But the attribution of an extended metaphor as oppsose to a regular metaphor continues beyond merely one line and is what drives the message of the initial metaphor. (i.e. "All the worlds a stage" poem in shakespeare's play "As you like it")
 * Personification; giving an inanimate object a human quality/characteristic, Shakespeare used this frequently as it was easy for he audiencereader to understand.
 * Imagery is the creation of mental pictures which enabes the reader to "see" characters, their facial expressions and their seting. a powerful technique to bring close contact with the subject of the piece. Shakespear liked to used everyday life and/or nature in his imagery.
 * Shakespear frequently used Malapropism (using a word in an incorrect place for the purpose of being funny) "O vallain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this!" One cannot be condemned into redemption.
 * Allusion is reference to a historical event, other culture, text and people. Nowadays it's is less obvious to the modern world when used, but in the elizabethan era is was easily identified.
 * Shakespeare's plays are scripts- they are to be spoken and acted out. Punctuation indicaes how it should be spoken (the lines), when to pause and for how long. You read to the punctuation-not to the end of the line.
 * ======**__//Mark//__**====== || ======**__//Name//__**====== || ======**__//Pause//__**====== ||
 * =**,**= || Comma || Half breath ||
 * =**.**= || Fullstop || Full breath ||
 * =**!**= || Exclamation point || Full breath ||
 * =**?**= || Question mark || Full breath ||
 * =**;**= || Semi-colon || Half breath ||
 * =**:**= || Colon || Full breath ||
 * =**-**= || Dash || Half breath ||
 * =****= || Brackets/parentheses || Half breath ||
 * Iambic Pentameter is the structure which Shakespeare used to write his sonnets. Each line had ten syllables and every second syllable is stressed. In total Shkaespeare always wrote 14 lines of Iambic Pentameter (140 syllables in total).

__EXAMPLE:__
 * Sonnet 13**

1 O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are **A**

2 No longer yours than you yourself here live: **B**

3 Against this coming end you should prepare, **C** **4** And your sweet semblance to some other give. **B**

5 So should that beauty which you hold in lease **D**

6 Find no determination: then you were **E**

7 Yourself again after yourself's decease, **D**

8 When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear. **C**

9 Who lets so fair a house fall to decay, **E**

10 Which husbandry in honour might uphold **F**

11 Against the stormy gusts of winter's day **E**

12 And barren rage of death's eternal cold? **F**

13 O, none but unthrifts! Dear my love, you know **G**

14 You had a father: let your son say so. **G**


 * **Numbers=** Lines of Iambic Pentameter
 * **Letters=** Pattern of Rhyme
 * **Last two lines with G and G=** Rhyming couplet.

**Stanzas:**
 * **1-4 = 1st stanza**
 * **5-8 = 2nd stanza**
 * **9-12 = 3rd stanza**
 * **13 & 14 = 4th stanza**

__**Syllable stressing example**__ //**"**//O! **//that//** you **//were//** your **//self;//** but, **//love,//** you, **//are"//**
 * //Enjoy!//**
 * //Gen xoxox :D DING!//**

//**Romeo and Juliet**//

 * Plot Summery:**

Romeo Montague loves Rosaline but she does not return his love so he goes to a party to heal his broken heart. At the party he meets Juliet and falls in love with her. When he finds out later that she is a Capulet (the rival family of the Montague’s) he decides that he loves her anyway. Romeo and Juliet declare their love for each other in the balcony scene and make plans to marry the next day. Friar Lawrence marries them in an effort to end the fighting between their families. Unfortunately, Juliet’s cousin Tybalt kills Romeo’s good friend Mercutio. In an angry rage Romeo kills Tybalt. Also at this time Juliet’s family are trying to make her marry Paris but she does not want to. With help from Friar Lawrence she drinks a sleeping potion that makes her look dead. Friar Lawrence promised to tell Romeo to come and rescue her when the potion wears off so they can go live happily ever after. But Romeo does not get the message and only hears of her death. He goes to her tomb and drinks poison and dies. When the potion wears off, Juliet awakens to find Romeo’s corpse. She stabs herself with Romeo’s dagger. When the two families find the bodies they make peace and the feud is over.


 * Characters:**


 * Romeo** **Montague** – He is in love with Juliet. He is young, tragic, hasty and emotional.
 * Juliet Capulet** – She is in love with Romeo. She believes marriage should be for love. She is also young and hasty.
 * Lord Capulet** – He is Juliet's father. He is strict, harsh, and not understanding. He wants her to marry Paris.
 * Lady Montague** – Romeo's mother. She is very busy and strict.
 * Lord Montague** – Romeo' father. He is stubborn and not willing to forgive.
 * County Paris** – He is kinsman of Prince. He wants to marry Juliet.
 * Prince Escalus** – He is Prince of Verona. He wants peace and the family feud to end.
 * Friar Lawrence** – He is the Priest in Verona. He weds Romeo and Juliet hoping it will unite both families but it just causes more fighting. Instead it causes fighting. He later gives Juliet sleeping potion. He helps Romeo out.
 * The Nurse** – She cared for Juliet during childhood and wants the best for Juliet. She is very talkative.
 * Mercutio** – He is a good friend of Romeo
 * Balthasar** – He is a servant and Romeo’s friend.
 * Benvolio** – He is a friend of Romeo
 * Tybalt** – Lady Capulet’s nephew. He has a bad temper.
 * Samson** – A Capulet servant
 * Gregory** – A Capulet servant

Rebecca Tuckey :)