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Renaissance Writing: Structure to the EXTREME!

Renaissance Writing: Structure to the EXTREME!. British Literature Mrs. Leach. Take NOTES!. It is crucial that you take notes on this presentation. The end of this lesson will culminate into YOU writing a Shakespearean Sonnet. You cannot do that if you don’t have the instructions!

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Renaissance Writing: Structure to the EXTREME!

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  1. Renaissance Writing: Structure to the EXTREME! British Literature Mrs. Leach

  2. Take NOTES! • It is crucial that you take notes on this presentation. The end of this lesson will culminate into YOU writing a Shakespearean Sonnet. You cannot do that if you don’t have the instructions! • This presentation is on my website.

  3. Elizabethan Poets • Like modern song writers, Elizabethan poets used strongly emotional language to express their love. They often used a SONNET form.

  4. Sonnet • 14 line-lyric poem with a single theme. • Each line is IAMBIC PENTAMETER or 5 groups of 2 syllables • WE WILL TALK MORE ABOUT THIS LATER. FIRST YOU NEED TO LEARN THE BEAT.

  5. SCANSION • What you will be doing is called scansion, or the analysis of a poem’s beat/meter.

  6. POETIC METER • A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. It is a rhythmic “beat” like the steady pulse that brings you into music. • VIDEOlisten for the BEAT!!

  7. Finding the BEAT • Think about how people say your name. Where is the emphasis placed? What syllable sticks out? Take a few moments to discuss a few classmates names and where you place emphasis. Examples: • saMANtha *GINger *DAvid *aLEXus *Kevin Don’t put the wrong emPHAsis on the wrong syLAble!

  8. VIDEO Introduction • Video

  9. Basic Feet The basic meter feet or “beats” are : 7. PYRRHIC 8. AMPHIBRACH 9. AMPHIMACER **you will need to memorize these!! • 1. IAMB • 2. TROCHEE • 3. ANAPEST • 4. DACTYL • 5. SPONDEE • 6. CAESURA

  10. IAMB • Definition: a metrical foot consisting of one unstressed and one stressed • Symbols: u / • Example: RELIEF

  11. TROCHEE • Definition: a foot consisting of one stressed and one unstressed • Symbols: / u • apple • Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble • Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

  12. ANAPEST • Definition: a metrical foot consisting of two unstressed and one stressed • Symbols: u u / • Example: introduce Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.’

  13. DACTYL • Definition: a metrical foot consisting of one stressed and 2 unstressed • symbol: / u u • Example: broccoli • A famous example of dactylic meter is in the first few lines of ‘The Lost Leader’ by Robert Browning: • Just for a handful of silver he left us • Just for a rib and to stick in his coat

  14. SPONDEE • Definition:  foot consisting of two stressed syllables Symbols: / / Example: Hog-wild

  15. CAESURA Definition: a pause Symbols: I I *please note that these are different than the Spondee

  16. PYRRHIC Definition: two unstressed syllables. • Symbols: u u

  17. AMPHIMACER Definition: a metrical foot containing a stressed, unstressed, and a stressed. Symbols: / u / Example: happy days, la-di-dah Annie Hall's often-quoted line from the movie of that name is spoken as a amphimacer: "La-di-dah!” CLIP VIDEO

  18. AMPHIBRACH • Definition: A metrical foot containing an unstressed, stressed, unstressed. • Symbol: u / u • Example: Limericks often contain an element of amphibrachic meter. You can hear it in this first line: “There once was a lady called Joan”

  19. VIDEO • Watch this video to help reinforce the information you have just learned. • LINK (watch to 7:09) then pause for the next several slides.

  20. On a sheet of paper, write down the following phrases. Identify the metrical foot of each. Keep in mind to focus on which part of the word gets the most emphasis. EXAMPLE: I seek to hold the wind 1. Best of all, victory! 2. I bought a car today. 3. Look for hidden pitfalls. 4. In the cool of the night. Practice the Metrical Pattern U- unstressed -stressed

  21. Answers Best of all, victory! I bought a car today. Look for hidden pitfalls. In the cool of the night. Practice the Metrical Pattern

  22. In addition, SCANSION means you have to count up the amount of feet used. There are names for this too!!

  23. Dimeter: 2ft./lineTrimeter: 3ft./lineTetrameter: 4ft./linePentameter: 5ft./lineHexameter: 6ft./lineThe most common? Pentameter

  24. Quatrain A stanza of four lines.

  25. The TURN/VOLTA A shift in the nature of the SONNET where it begins responding to itself.

  26. COUPLET

  27. For the rest of the class: 1. Pass out the “Rhythm, Meter, and Scansion Made Easy” worksheet.2. Then work on the “Think, Pair, Share Activity 1”

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