Lesson objectives

• Consider the effect of dramatic irony

• Consider the prologue of Romeo and Juliet

• Understand the language used 

 Starter – Know your irony

There are three major types of Irony

Verbal: When the speaker says one thing and does another

Dramatic: When the audience understands the significance of an event

but the characters do not.

Situational: a situation in which actions have the opposite effect of what

occurs
Today, our focus is on…….

DRAMATIC
IRONY

What is it?
 Write this down!

Dramatic irony –

When the audience knows something that a

character in the play does not.
 The Prologue Of equal
status
A city in
Italy
    Two households, both alike in dignity, Fresh

Civilised
    In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, hatred
    From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
    Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
    From forth the fatal loins of these two foes R and J’s
Fated deaths
    A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; end the
    Whole misadventured piteous overthrows feud
    Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
Misguided     The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
    And the continuance of their parents' rage,
    Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, The play!
    Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
    The which if you with patient ears attend,
But = except     What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Listen
carefully

Can you highlight any lines which Can you identify the two key
have dramatic irony in it?  themes in the prologue?
Draw a table like this in your book. In your grops, find
words in the prologue which relate to each theme.

Love/Fate Conflict
How do you know from the language in the prologue
that the two major themes in Romeo and Juliet are
love and conflict?

Write you answer as a PEDAL paragraph.

Add in a model paragraph
 Swap books with the person next to you...
You are now responsible for marking that person’s work!

Instructions for marking:

(the PEDAL paragraph), mark a ‘P’ next to their point, an ‘E’ next to their evidence, and a
‘D’ next to their device. An “A” next to their analysis and a “L” next to their linking
sentence.
Did they manage to do all five?

When we have finished marking, your job is to evaluate how well they’ve done and write
a positive comment (WWW) and a target for improvement (EBI).
(Nothing silly or mean!)
 Does the prologue have any similarities
to a modern day blurb?

Stanley Yelnats’ family has a history of

bad luck, so he isn’t too surprised
when a miscarriage of justice sends
him to a boys’ juvenile detention
centre. At Camp Green Lake the boys
must dig a hole a day, five feet deep,
five feet across, in the dried up lake
bed. The Warden claims the labour is
character building, but it is a lie.
Stanley must dig up the truth.

Louis Sachar, Holes

Homework- Due on 24th February 2023

Write a blurb for Romeo and Juliet, using the

prologue as a basis for your own work.

A step by step guide:

It should be
1. Introduce your hero short, snappy
and heroine. and attention-
2. Describe the plot. grabbing!
3. Say who caused the
conflict.
4. Give a hint about the
ending.