English I Honors students worked on the friar’s famous soliloquy, which has all the elements of a perfect soliloquy: Displays attributes of the character Foreshadows the play Involves philosophical ruminations Displays heavy poetic embellishment We worked...
English I Honors worked on another little language trick Shakespeare likes to use: elliptical constructions. We used the prologue from act 2 as a model for our work. We’ve got two we’re looking for now: inversions; elliptical constructions. The former are...
English I Honors looked at two of the most iconic passages of Romeo and Juliet, We noted the motif of light and dark, which will appear throughout the play. We also noticed an inversion and determined how to untangle that particular knot. English 8 students went over...
English I Honors students went over Romeo and Juliet act 2 and the linguistic elements we’ve been examining with that act: inverted sentences elliptical constructions parallel structure We’ll be having a test on these things Wednesday, and based on the...
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