1. What technique is this?
What imagery is being used?
What are the connotations around the word “sun”?

2. C/L
Monday 25th September 2017
To explore the language techniques used by Romeo for this scene.
To analyse what they reveal about Romeo’s love for Juliet.

3. First of all let’s watch the scene
As we watch answer these questions:
Why is she above him on the stage?
“it is my lady” “it is my love” what is repeated?
What does he call her that is about heaven and possibly religion?
What is Juliet getting frustrated about?
What is an enemy to Juliet?
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4. Blason Sonnets Thomas Campion 1598
There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow; A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow. There cherries grow which none may buy, Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.
During Shakespeare’s time there were a lot of blason sonnets.
A blason was very popular in the Elizabethan times.
Lots of metaphors comparing things about a woman with nature.

5. Sonnet 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:    And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare    As any she belied with false compare.

6. Let’s read Act 2 Scene 2 LESSON OBJECTIVE:
To explore the language techniques used by Romeo for this scene.
As we read look out for how Romeo using language like a typical Elizabethan blason sonnet.
This means look out for him comparing Juliet to UNREALISTIC things.

7. AO2 Language/Punctuation Analysis
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
To explore the language techniques used by Romeo for this scene.
1. What might the stage direction for where Juliet is suggest?
2. Find 3 exclamatory sentences that Romeo uses. Around one explain what it reveals about Romeo’s feelings.
3. Find where Juliet is compared to the sun.
4. Find where Juliet’s eyes are compared to stars.
5. Find a collection of words that contribute to light imagery.
6. Find the possessive pronouns that Romeo uses. Is it used in a negative way like he owns her or more like he won’t let anyone have her now and he is deeply in love? Make your own comment.
BIG QUESTION: Juliet gets compared to a lot of things outside of this world. How does that link to the quotation “Beauty too rich for use, for earth” from Act 1 Scene 5 at the ball?

8. For today’s question
You need notes for Act 1 Scene 5 You need to link quotations from Act 2 Scene 2 (the balcony) with Act 1 Scene 5 (the Capulet ball)

9. How does Shakespeare use language in act 2 scene 2?
In Act 2 Scene 2 Shakespeare uses a lot of light imagery to show how Juliet is the light in Romeo’s life. During this scene, Romeo uses a lot of references to light when describing Juliet such as “it is the East and Juliet is the sun”. This metaphor compares Juliet to the sun to suggest that she is so beautiful that it radiates like the sun. Perhaps Shakespeare uses this metaphor to mimic the blazon language in the Elizabethan Era where poets compared beautiful women to things in nature in a hyperbolic way to stress how much they adored someone. It would have been typical to hear a man compare a woman to the sun so the audience would admire this language. The concrete noun “sun” carries a lot of connotations of brightness, happiness and hope. Possibly because Juleit will bring Romeo happiness in his life but these connotations are ironic because whilst she makes Romeo happy, their love ends in death. However maybe the connotation of hope could link to how their love will bring an end to the family feud. This light imagery links to Romeo’s light imagery that he used in Act 1 Scene 5 when he called Juliet a “snowy dove” and a “rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear”. The quotations link because…

10. How does Shakespeare use language in act 2 scene 2?
Key Terms: connotations imagery blason hyperbolic compare heavenly
How does Shakespeare use language in act 2 scene 2?
How to start? Shakespeare uses a lot of exclamatory sentences in Act 2 Scene 2 to show Romeo’s… Shakespeare uses a lot of light imagery in Shakespeare deliberately uses comparisons in Act 2 Scene 2..
Link Quotations HELP.
“she hangs upon the cheek of night”
“snowy dove”
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