romeo and juilet: background info

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Who made Italian sonnets?

Petrarch

What does sonnet mean?

“little song”

Italian sonnets have two parts: the ______ and the ______.

Octave and sestet

The octave __________________.

poses a question or problem

The sestet___________________.

resolves/answers

English sonnets have two parts: three _____ and a ending ________.

quatrains, couplet

The quatrains express ________.

a problem/question

The couplet ______.

resolves

meter

the rhythmical pattern in a line of poetry resulting in the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables (basically RRHYME SCHEME)

volta

a shift in tone in the poem

stanza

 line of poetry grouped together. Similar to a paragraph

exact rhyme

the repetition of words that end with the same vowel and consonant sounds as in love and dove

 slant rhyme

the repetition of words with an ending with similar sounds but do not rhyme perfectly

end rhyme

 the rhyming of words at the end of the line as in I saw a cloud / it was thundering very loud 

internal rhyme

the rhyming of words within a line, as in the cat in the hat

a sonnet is ___ lines

14

shakespeare married _______.

Ann Hathaway

Shakespeare had ____ kids.

three

Plays did not use ____ but rather relied on ______.

sets, fancy costumes

iambic pentameter has ___ iambs.

five

What are iambs?

a metric foot of two syllables… one is stressed and one is not.

oxymoron

a figure of speech containing two directly contradictory terms (ex: slient scream/ jumbo shrimp)

blank verse

lines written is iambic pentameter without rhyme

monologue

a long speech given by one character

soliloquy

the act of expressing one’s thoughts when alone

aside

a characters talks to the audience, makes a remark

Where did Shakespeare make his debut play?

Globe Theatre

Women’s parts were played by _____.

Men

Queen Elizabeth loved the ____.

theater

______ was really important in Elizabethan plays.

BLOODSHED

Romeo and Juliet mixed ____ and ______

comedy and tragedy

Shakespeare was born in ______.

Stratford-upon-Avons