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Iambic Pentameter and Sonnets. Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, including Romeo & Juliet. He also wrote about 154 sonnets.

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1 Iambic Pentameter and Sonnets

2 Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, including Romeo & Juliet. He also wrote about 154 sonnets.

3 sonnet : a fourteen-line poem Most of Shakespeare’s sonnets dealt with themes like love, life and death, and beauty.

4 unstressed syllable : a weakly pronounced syllable of a word; marked with a U stressed syllable : a strongly pronounced syllable of a word; marked with a / meter : the basic rhythmic pattern of a line of poetry foot : one smaller part of meter; each foot contains a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables iamb : an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (U /) U / Afraid  Af - raid U / Become  be - come U / Appoint  Ap-point pentameter : five sets of feet, containing 10 syllables

5 Many parts of Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare’s sonnets are all written in Iambic Pentameter Five sets of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. OR Each line of poetry contains five iambs.

6 Five iambs U / U / U / U / U / 1 2 3 4 5

7 Two main purposes for iambic pentameter 1. Easier to memorize Why do you think it would be important to Shakespeare, a playwright, that his writing was easy to memorize? 2. Helps the reader to tell the difference between upper class characters and lower class characters Shakespeare would write lines for upper-class characters in iambic pentameter.

8 Another reason for using iambic pentameter 3. We talk naturally in this rhythm. We naturally speak in unstressed and stressed syllables. If we didn’t, we would be speaking in a monotone voice.

9 U / U / U / U / U / I am a pirate with a wooden leg. I AM a PIrate WITH a WOODen LEG.

10 U / U / U / U / U / I’m hungry. Is it almost time for lunch? I’m HUNgry. IS it ALmost TIME for LUNCH?

11 U / U / U / U / U / We hold these truths to be self-evident. We HOLD these TRUTHS to BE self- EVidENT.

12 U / U / U / U / U / So foul and fair a day I have not seen. So FOUL and FAIR a DAY I HAVE not SEEN.

13 U / U / U / U / U / But soft: what light through yonder window breaks? U / U / U / U / U / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

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