Analyzing the play for evidence friar laurence: i will be brief, for my short date of breath is not so long as is a tedious tale. romeo, there dead, was husband to that juliet; and she, there dead, that romeo's faithful wife: i married them; and their stolen marriage-day was tybalt's doomsday, whose untimely death banish'd the new-made bridegroom from this city; for whom, and not for tybalt, juliet pin'd. you, to remove that siege of grief from her, betroth'd, and would have married her perforce, to county paris: then comes she to me, and, with wild looks bid me devise some mean to rid her from this second marriage, or in my cell there would she kill herself. then give i her, — so tutor'd by my art,— a sleeping potion; which so took effect as i intended, for it wrought on her the form of death. —romeo and juliet, william shakespeare which details support the idea that secrets are a leading cause of the catastrophe? check all that apply. “not so long as is a tedious tale” “their stolen marriage-day” “then comes she to me” “for whom, and not for tybalt, juliet pin’d” “for it wrought on her / the form of death”

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's 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 damasked, 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. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?