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IAMBIC PENTAMETER

IAMBIC PENTAMETER. Sounds BIG and SCA ry, BUT what DOES it MEAN?. Numerical Prefixes. UNI cycle = BI cycle = TRI angle = QUAD rilateral = PENTA gon = HEXA gon =. Iambic Pentameter. IAMB = metrical FOOT with one unstressed syllable and a 2 nd STRESSED syllable. PENTA = FIVE!

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IAMBIC PENTAMETER

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  1. IAMBIC PENTAMETER Sounds BIG and SCA ry, BUT what DOES it MEAN?

  2. Numerical Prefixes • UNIcycle = • BIcycle = • TRIangle = • QUADrilateral = • PENTAgon = • HEXAgon =

  3. Iambic Pentameter • IAMB = metrical FOOT with one unstressed syllable and a 2ndSTRESSED syllable. • PENTA = FIVE! • Iambic Pentameter = Five 2 syllable feet (10 syllables in each line)

  4. 1 3 2 Five Feet! 4 5

  5. WHY did Shakespeare use iambic pentameter? • To show emotion or importance • Shakespeare was meant to be heard! It made it easier for the audience to follow the lines. • It helped the actors to memorize their lines. • It made sure that the actors emphasized the words Shakespeare wanted to emphasize.

  6. Watch where your stressed syllables fall… • As YOU can SEE it’s NOT that HARD to LEARN. • You CAN see it’s not THAT hard TO learn THIS. • Which sounds better?? • But I am GIV ing YOU a BET ter CAR. • I AM giv ING you A bet TER car TOO.

  7. Living iambic pentameter DO!

  8. Iambic Pentameter Practice I NEED ten VOLunTEERS to COME up FRONT.

  9. Macbeth 2.2.60-66 Lady Macbeth: And wash this filthy witness from your hand Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there. Go carry them and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. Macbeth: I’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done.

  10. Five (PENTA) feet (IAMBS) = IAMBIC PENTAMETER! • As YOU can SEE it’s NOT that HARD to LEARN. • You CAN see it’s not THAT hard TO learn THIS. • You CAN write JUST like SHAKE speare DID back THEN. • Did YOU know THAT I’m WRITing LIKE that NOW? • And IT gets EA si ER the MORE you TRY. • I AMB ic PEN ta ME ter’s NOT that BAD!

  11. You try! • Write 5 lines in iambic pentameter about yourself – ON YOUR INDEX CARD! • Write your name on your card to be collected, but DO NOT include your name IN the poem so we can guess who wrote it.  • I will read the card and you will try to guess who it is.

  12. Who is it? He comes from Canada, a pop singer. He sang on youtube and became famous. Arrested for drunk driving and racing.

  13. Example: My fav’rite animal are long necked giraffes. I come from the valley isle, Maui. I teach at Campbell High in the tenth grade.

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