shakespear act 1, sonnet 18&130

prologue

tells what will happen in the story and that it will last two hours

written in a shakespearean sonnet

scene i (fight)

begins with capulets dissing montagues

tybalt instigates a fight, prince stops it (threatens to kill both families if feud continues)

scene i (conversation)

lady montague and benvolio are concerned over romeo being in him room too much

they find out that romeo is lovesick over rosaleen, benvolio tells him to find another girl

romeo

only son of the montagues

benvolio

the peacekeeper

gives advice

tybalt

instigator

prince

annoyed with the feud between capulets and montagues

scene ii

introduced to paris

illiterate servant asks romeo and benvolio for help (they see the invitation)

romeo wants to go because of rosaleen, benvolio tells him to go to find a new girl and forget rosaleen

paris

wants to marry juliet

capulet says no (offers an invitation to their party)

described as a “man of wax”

scene iii

introduced to the nurse, lady capulet, and juliet

they discuss juliet’s future

juliet

daughter of capulets

13 (almost 14) years old

lady capulet

want’s juliet to marry paris for status, says that they would be perfect for eachother

nurse

wants juliet to be able to choose who she wants to marry (does think that paris is a good man though)

desceased daughter (susan) and husband

is a mother figure to juliet

scene iv

benvolio, mercutio, and romeo discuss their dreams

benvolio: imaginative, long, and descriptive dream

romeo: dreams of his death

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they discuss going to capulets party and dont think they will be recognised because of masks

what literary element does romeo experience the night before the ball

foreshadowing

(of his death)

scene v (ballroom)

tybalt recognizes romeo by his voice and wants to kill him (capulet stops him

tybalt says that he will get revenge

scene v (romeo&juliet)

romeo and juliet meet

they kiss and immediately fall in love

they find out that their families are enemies

what is romeo and juliet written in

blank verse

some sonnets

mercutio

jokester

describes his dream

rosaleen

romeo is in love with her and at the ball to find a new girl

character foils

opposites

romeo - mercutio

benvolio - tybalt

sonnet

a form of lyric poetry composed of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter

rhyme scheme of sonnet

abab cdcd efef gg

iambic pentameter

a type of meter

contains 5 iams (feet) per line

how many quatrains are there in a sonnet

three (ababcdcdefef)

how many couplets are in a sonnet

one

couplet

two lines of verse (poetry) that rhyme

heroic couplet

a pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter

the message of sonnet 18

shakespeare is comparing someone to a summers day

the message of sonnet 130

even though she is not the “standard” he still loves her and sees her as beautiful in her own way

literary elements used in sonnets 18 & 130

rhyming

iambic pentameter

personification

metaphor

meter

a regular rhythmic pattern in poetry as determined by the number of beats, or stresses, in each line

order of a shakespearean sonnet

quatrain - 4 lines

quatrain - 4 lines

quatrain - 4 lines

heroic couplet - 2 lines

volta

a change (usually in the couplet of the sonnet)