Writer's methods

How Shakespeare's form, structure and language create meaning: tragedy, the sonnets of the Prologue and the lovers' first meeting,
verse and prose, soliloquies, dramatic irony, oxymoron, light and dark imagery, foreshadowing and the compressed time scheme.
The Prologue and the shared sonnet, blank verse, rhyming couplets and prose, and who speaks which.
Oxymoron, light and dark imagery, and foreshadowing such as 'death-mark'd love'.
Dramatic irony, comic relief from the Nurse, Mercutio and the servants, and the four-day time scheme.

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