Shakespeare! By: Cassidy Higgins and Ashley Busch Mod: 10 Mrs. Heer Author Study Project

Thesis Statement Shakespeare wrote a long time ago. He writes plays, poems, and sonnets. No one can really know what influenced him. We didn’t have many documents on him, or information about him or his family.

Style He uses a lot of figurative language, in his writing. Especially with similes, metaphors, and puns. Many characters are developed fast, and often sometimes put in footnotes, to show their relationship to others. His plot has a lot of details which add up to each part of the plot (such as climax, falling point, rising point, etc.), and there is a lot of other conflicts besides the main conflict. The setting is usually told at the beginning of each scene/act. There is little imagery in Shakespeare’s writing, because it is a play, it would depend on how the scene is set up on the stage. The mood’s of Shakespeare’s writing is mainly depended on how the character’s say and act out there lines.

Figurative Language “And then the moon, like to a silver bow” This is a simile because it is comparing the moon to a silver bow. “My body will be your sheath”. This is a metaphor comparing Juliet’s body, and a sheath which is a case which holds your sword/dagger/knife, so she wants to stab herself with the knife. “To leave the figure or disfigure it.” This is an oxymoron because there are two opposite words in the same sentence. “Not Romeo, Prince, he was Mercutio’s friend. His fault concludes but what the law should end,”. This has a couplet because friend and end rhyme. “Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,”. This is an allusion referencing to the Roman goddess of Love, Venus.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Hermia, the daughter of Egeus and she is in love with Lysander, but her father is forcing her to marry Demetrius. She can either marry Demetrius or be killed or become a nun. Helena envies Hermia because the more Hermia hates Demetrius the more he loves her. Titania and Oberon are fighting over a human boy, who Titania isn’t giving to Oberon because it was her human friend son, and she died giving birth to him. Oberon sends Puck to get the juice from the flower that was shot with cupid’s arrow. Also, when you put the juice on someone they fall in love with the first person they see. Puck was supposed to sprinkle the juice on Demetrius to fall in love with Helena, But instead sprinkled it on Lysander and Helena woke him up she was the first person he saw and fell in love with her. Demetrius is buttering up Egeus even more, so that he will always have Egeus’ love for him. Then all of the characters are acting in the play. This is one of Shakespeare’s comedies.

Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a book about love, murder, suicide, and true hatred. The two families involved in this story, are, the Montagues and Capulets. These two families hate each other. They each have one child, Romeo (Montague) and Juliet (Capulet). They end up falling in “love” and want to spend their life together. The only things stopping them, their families, and who they want to marry Juliet to, Paris. Of course, Juliet and Romeo marry each other, but they get a potion, so they sleep for a long time, and people will think Juliet died, so she won’t have to marry Paris. But, Romeo thinks Juliet is actually dead, so he kills himself in the tomb, and then Juliet wakes up from her sleep, and kills herself because of Romeo being actually dead. By the death of their daughter and son, the Montague and Capulet’s finally get along and become friends. But, death takes over this love story. This is one of Shakespeare’s tragedies.

Inspiration No one can tell if Shakespeare’s life influenced his writing, because he kept things secretive, and was hard to find information about. But, most people think it did, because there were traveling plays, which he could get ideas from! Also, he can get ideas from books or plays he read or saw, or things he experienced. The time when we couldn’t find anything about Shakespeare, was called, The Lost Years.

Work Cited I know we mainly used the same website, but this website had a lot of information, on many different information all about Shakespeare. It had a lot of good detail too.

Conclusion No one can actually know what influenced Shakespeare, because he lived in a Elizabethan time period, and there were no actual documents. This is also why there isn’t much information on him. He wrote plays, sonnets, and poems. His most famous literature, are his plays. The three types of plays Shakespeare wrote was, tragedies, comedies, and histories. Shakespeare’s plays weren’t very popular in his time, and were mainly performed for royalty. They were performed in the Globe Theater. Shakespeare used many different types of Figurative Language, but, he mainly used puns, similes, and metaphors. It was hard to show imagery, because he wrote plays, and he would either have the character saying details about their surroundings, or said when they introduce the scenes/act characters.

Thank you for your time! From~ Cassidy and Ashley!