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Mastering Shakespeare: Reading Aloud Techniques for Understanding Verses

Learn to scan, stress, and breathe through Shakespeare's words to enhance comprehension. Explore blank verse, iambic pentameter, and more.

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Mastering Shakespeare: Reading Aloud Techniques for Understanding Verses

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  1. Reading Shakespeare's Words ALOUD 1. Support the final word in the line. But screw your courage to the sticking place Terms: blank verse, iambic pentameter 2. Emphasize stressed syllables. ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / But screw your courage to the sticking place Terms: foot, scansioning [scanning]

  2. 3. Separate the thoughts. But screw your courage to the sticking place And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep Terms: phrases, caesura [//], elision, enjambment 4. Breathe only at punctuation. ~ / ~ / ~ This is the sergeant / / ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / Who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought / / ~ / ~ // ~ / 'Gainst my captivity. ---- Hail, brave friend! Terms: feminine ending, spondee or spondaic foot

  3. Checking for Understanding 1. Scan the following lines, using ~ for unstressed syllable and / for stressed syllable, separating feet with a vertical line. For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name), 1 Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, 2 Which smoked with bloody execution, 3 Like valor's minion, carved out his passage 4 Till he faced the slave; 5 2. The enjambed lines are ____ and _____. 3. Line ____ has a feminine ending. 4. Line ____ is NOT iambic pentameter. 5. Circle the phrases which belong together for understanding.

  4. ~ / /~ / / / ~ / ~ For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name), 1 ~/ ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, 2 ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ Which smoked with bloody execution, 3 / / ~ / ~ / / ~ / ~ Like valor's minion, carved out his passage 4 / ~ / ~ / Till he faced the slave; 5

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