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INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE USING ROMEO & JULIET

~ SHAKESPEAREAN LANGAUGE ~ Language Structure Verse – rhythm and rhyme used to help actors remember their lines, based on Greek tradition. Prose – ordinary form of written language, all language not in verse. Iamb – one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. (i.e. aLIKE) Iambic Pentameter – A line of verse that consists…

ROMEO AND JULIET ACT 2, SCENE 2 IMAGERY

Imagery is the use of descriptive language to create an image in the minds of the readers.  Shakespeare uses many kinds of images in his play.  Here are 4 kinds of imagery we find frequently in Romeo and Juliet: Metaphor: describing something by comparing it to something else without the use of “like” or “as”…