ACT I SCENE I ACT I SCENE II

ACT I, SCENE I

ACT I, SCENE II

ACT I, SCENE III

ACT I, SCENE IV

ACT I, SCENE V

I WILL BE ASSESSING YOU ON THE FOLLOWING WORDS. WORK WITH YOUR GROUP TO DECIDE FIVE MORE WORDS I SHOULD INCLUDE. • Accord • Pernicious • Covert • Portent • Disparagement • Profane • Galling • Virtuous • Partisan • Wanton

ACT I VOCAB

PARTISAN • : (n) a weapon having a blade with lateral projections mounted on the end of a long shaft; one who exhibits extreme or blind allegiance to a group. • Ex: “Clubs, bills, and partisans! Strike! Beat them down!”

PERNICIOUS • (adj. ): very destructive or harmful, deadly, baneful, detrimental • Ex: “What ho! You men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins!”

COVERT • (adj) secret, concealed, stealthy • (n) a thicket in which game (hunted animals) can hide • Ex: “Toward him I made; but he was ware of me And stole into the covert of the wood”

PORTENT • (n) a sign or forewarning; omen, warning • (adj) momentous, having great significance • Ex: “Black and portentous must this humor prove Unless good counsel may the cause remove”

GALLING/GALL • Galling: (adj) very irritating, vexing, bitter • Gall: (n) bile, an irritant, something bitter • “What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet”

ACCORD/ACCORDING • Accord: (n) Agreement, state of harmony, concur • According (adj): Harmonious, agreeable • “An she agree, within her scope of choice, Lies my consent and fair according voice. ”

WANTON • (adj) immoral or (n) someone who is immoral • “Let wantons light of heart Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels”

VIRTUOUS • (adj) having excellent morals, righteous, ethical, noble • “He bears him like a portly gentleman And to say truth, Verona brags of him To be a virtuous and well-govern’d youth”

DISPARAGE/DISPARAGEMENT • Disparage: (v) to degrade, speak of someone or something in a derogatory manner, to belittle • Disparagement: (n) the act of disparaging, something that casts a bad light • “I would not for the wealth of all this town Here in my house do him some disparagement”

PROFANE • (v) showing contempt toward sacred things; to violate, desecrate, or defame • “If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss”

CHINKS • (n) Cash (another word for money)

SCATHE • (v) To harm, hurt, or injure

BESEECH • (v) To request

LIST • Means “please”

RECKONING • (n) Reputation

PROLIXITY • Extended to unnecessary length

SOFT • hold on a minute

COVER • (n) Metaphor for a wife

PRINCOX • (n) A rude youngster (or a “wise guy”)

SPINNER • (n) a spider

PICK YOUR THREE FAVORITE VOCAB WORDS AND USE THEM IN SENTENCES/A SENTENCE.

SHAKESPEARIAN SONNETS! CHECK OUT THE THREE SONNETS IN YOUR PACKET AND WORK WITH A PARTNER OR BY YOUR SELF TO DETERMINE THE SIMILARITIES ALL OF THEM SHARE.

AS WE GO THROUGH, COMPLETE THE NOTES AND SEE IF YOUR OBSERVATIONS MATCH MINE

SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS

ABOUT SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS: • He wrote 154 of them (!) • In his sonnets he focuses on love, lust, friendship, mortality, and immortality

THE FORMAT OF A SONNET • 14 lines • Lyric poems (short poems with one speaker expressing thoughts and feelings) • Rhyme scheme: • ABAB • CDCD • EFEF • GG • So three quatrains (three stanzas with four lines each where every other line rhymes), then one rhyming couplet (one stanza with two lines where those two lines rhyme)

RHYMES IN A SONNET • Uses both ear-rhymes and eye-rhymes • Ear-rhymes: rhymes in sound (like “increase” and “decrease”) • Eye-rhymes: rhymes in sight (like “compare” and “are”

SONNETS USE IAMBIC PENTAMETER • Each line has 5 metric feet with alternately unstressed and stressed syllables • Each line is ten syllables long • The accent is always on the second syllable • By “iambic”, it means the rhythm goes from an unstressed syllable to a stressed one • This happens in words like: divine, caress, bizarre, and delight • The underlying beat, then, is like a heartbeat

CHECK OUT THE FIRST LINE OF “SONNET 18” Look at your notes, then decide: How is this line in iambic pentameter? Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?