1. Shakespeare Vocab

2. Mutiny: A violent uprising or rebellion against authority.
Star-crossed: Ill-fated; doomed

3. If a monologue and a soliloquy are both speeches made by one person (typically in a play), what do you think is the difference between the two?

4. Monologue: A speech made by a person (to express their thoughts) in the company of others.
Soliloquy: A speech made by a person (to express their thoughts) while they are alone.

6. Shakespearean Language
Shakespeare is responsible for inventing about 1,700 words that we use in the English language today.
Some of these words include: addiction, countless, birthplace, champion, gloomy and flawed.
The language that you see in Shakespeare’s plays is also known as Early Modern English.

8. Some Words You Should Know…
Thou/Thee = You (singular)
Ye= You (plural)
Thine = Your

9. Contractions You Should Know…
Tis = it is
Ope = open
O’er = over
Gi’ = give
Ne’er = never
E’er = ever
Oft= often
A’ = he
E’en = even

10. What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
A poem of 14 lines
3 quatrains and 1 couplet
Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
The poem tells a story. The first twelve lines usually tell a cohesive story while the couplet at the end presents some sort of a “twist.”

11. Written in iambic pentameter
Unstressed, stressed syllables
daDUM daDUM daDUM
Example:
When I/ do COUNT/ the CLOCK/ that TELLS/ the TIME

13. Profane: The teacher was not happy when the student used a profane expression during class.
Strife: She sensed the unseen scars of war and strife buried beneath the surface of the hardened man before her.

14. Pernicious: He had a pernicious disease at the young age of 49.
Adversary: I felt conflicted when my sister didn’t approve of my decision because then she became the adversary of what was important to me.
Pernicious: He had a pernicious disease at the young age of 49.

15. Propagate: Tabloid magazines often propagate fake stories.
Gall: After he made the mistake, he had the gall to blame me for it.

16. Insolent: When the insolent guy commented on her looks, she turned and walked the other way.

17. Who Said It? When? “Tut man, one fire burns out another’s burning.”
“This precious book of love, this unbound lover, to beautify him only lacks a cover.”

18. Who Said It? When?
“Tis but thy name that is my enemy!” “I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes, by her high forehead and her scarlet lip…”

19. Define a “Pun.”
Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas.

20. Pun
A form of wordplay that suggest two or more meanings by offering multiple meanings of words or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous effect.

21. Salad Pun Poem We can have fun if you lettuce.
Just tossing salad puns.
I’ll try not to wilt.
For I’ll try dressing these
Puns to your appetite.

22. Paraphrase: O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that they love prove likewise variable.

23. Identify the speaker and paraphrase: “Call me but love and I’ll be new baptized”

24. Conjure: Lena conjured up the most delicious meal in only 30 minutes!
Jest: He made a jest about his best friend but he accidentally hurt her feelings.

25. Jaunt: She was sad to go back home after her brief jaunt in France.
Knave:
He is a despicable knave who stabbed his best friend in the back.

26. Apt: She was apt to confuse the past with the present.
Vile: The smell of the food he made was so vile that she almost puked.

27. Scorn: He felt scorn for his ex-girlfriend after she cheated on him.
Haste: The mom got a call that her baby was very sick so she left work in great haste.
Scorn: He felt scorn for his ex-girlfriend after she cheated on him.

28. Fickle: People say she is fickle in love because she had seven boyfriends last year.
Slander: The celebrity is suing the TV station for slander because the story was untrue.

29. Dirge: They sang three dirges at my grandmother’s funeral.
Behoove: It would behoove you to study the vocab as you get it, instead of waiting until the night before the test.

30. 4.1 Questions What is dramatic irony?
What is an example of dramatic irony in 4.1?
How does Friar Laurence feel about knowing that Juliet is married to Romeo?
What new plan does Friar Laurence propose to Juliet?

31. Vocabulary Review
She had the _____________ to correct her principal in front of the other students.
Dirge
Slander
Behoove
Gall

32. 2. What are two major themes that arises throughout the play?
1. What is a theme?
2. What are two major themes that arises throughout the play?

33. Good morning! Please grab a book, take out your list of themes, and put your name next to a character on the board.