Sounds BIG and SCA ry, BUT what DOES it MEAN?

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

PENTAgon = Numerical Prefixes UNIcycle = BIcycle = TRIangle = QUADrilateral = PENTAgon = HEXAgon =

Iambic Pentameter IAMB = metrical FOOT with one unstressed syllable and a 2nd STRESSED syllable. PENTA = FIVE!

1 2 3 Ta-TUM Five Feet! 4 5

Shall I com PARE thee TO a SUM- mer’s DAY?

How sweet the moon light sleeps upon this bank!

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.

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.

Living iambic pentameter DO! Living iambic pentameter

In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

It wearies me, you say it wearies you

And such a want-wit sadness makes of me

That I have much ado to know myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArrR66OSa0Q

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!

Homework 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. 