Romeo and Juliet Sonnet 18 Shall I compare
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Romeo and Juliet
Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
What is an Elizabethan sonnet? A type of sonnet much used by Shakespeare, written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the rhyme scheme Abab cdcd Efef gg.
What is an oxymoron? • Two words that conflict with each other. • • Example: Awfully good Open secret Paid Volunteer
Can you find an oxymoron example from Act 1, Scene 1?
Act 1, Scene 1 Questions • Romeo and Juliet is essentially a love story. Why do you think Shakespeare begins it with a violent street fight? • For which family do Gregory and Sampson work? • Benvolio’s name means ‘well-wishing’. How does our first encounter with him help to establish him as a ‘well-wishing’ character?
Questions Cont’d • What impression do you have of Tybalt and his attitude to this feud? Refer to the text to substantiate your answer. • Prince Escalus scolds Capulet and Montague. What punishment will they suffer if their followers fight in the street again? • Romeo is introduced as a typical romantic lover. Describe his behavior, with specific reference to the text and what he says to illustrate this point.