1. Elizabethan (QE1) Words
An,and: If
Anon: Soon
Aye: Yes
But: Except for
E’en: Even
E’er: Ever

2. QE1 Words (contin.) Haply: Perhaps Happy: Fortunate
Hence: Away, from her
Hie: Hurry
Marry: Indeed

3. QE1 Words (contin.) Whence: Where Wilt: Will, will you
Withal: In addition to
Would: Wish

4. Blank Verse Much of R & J is written in it: unrhymed verse
iambic (unstressed, stressed)
pentameter( 5 “feet” to a line)
ends up to be 10 syllable lines

5. Prose Ordinary writing that is not poetry, drama, or song
Only characters in the lower social classes speak this way in Shakespeare’s plays
Why do you suppose that is?

6. Metaphorical Language
Comparison of unlike things >
Paris standing over the “lifeless body” of Juliet, “Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew…”
“Thou detestable maw…”Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth…” Romeo