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Exercise 1 answers
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Exercise 2 Answers
Depot: Trochaic Perform: Iambic Unaware: Anapestic Separate: Dactylic Disagree: Dactylic Shot-put: Spondee
Seizure:
Trochaic
Upset: Iambic
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Scansion: Meter and FeetSlide4
Meter and Feet
FOOT: two consecutive syllables in a line (usually 1 iamb or one trochee)METER: One line made up of a certain amount of feet Monometer: one foot Pentameter: five feet Dimeter: two feet Hexameter: six feet Trimeter: three feet Heptameter: seven feet Tetrameter: four feet Octameter: eight feetSlide5
Meter and feet continued…
Meters are categorized by predominant rhythm and number of feet: Iambic pentameter has five feet and is predominantly iambic: baBOOM | baBOOM | baBOOM | baBOOM | baBOOM. Example: When IN | dis GRACE | with FOR | tune AND | men’s EYES I ALL | a LONE | be WEEP | my OUT| cast STATE My HEART |
ACHES and
| a DROW | sy NUMB | ness PAINS Slide6
What are the goals of scansion?
To find the predominant rhythm.To appreciate the rhyme, rhythm, and beauty of a poet’s verseTo locate irregularities.Slide7
How to scan a line
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?Break the line up into feetWords with multiple syllables can be in multiple feetMark the stresses in words with MORE THAN ONE SYLLABLEJust use the natural stress of the wordMark stresses on the important wordsSlide8
How to scan a line
Find feet that don’t fit the predominant rhythm.When a word’s natural stress doesn’t fit the line –GA ther | ye ROSE | buds WHILE | ye MAYWhen the more important word is in the usually unstressed positionDOOM'd for |a CER | tain TERM | to WALK | the NIGHTignore pyrrhic feet but mark spondeesFALSE FACE | must HIDE | what the | FALSE HEART | doth KNOW Explain WHY the author made the line irregularto BE |or NOT |to BE |THAT is | the QUES | tion
Hamlet needs to decide if life is worth living
before
he decides what he should do about his father’s murderSlide9
Exceptions to all the rules
The extra syllable. unstressed
syllable at the line end, making eleven
syllables
This is a minor
and
insignificant variation in a completely regular line. Mark
with
an (E):
Example
: i COME | to BU | ry CAE | sar, NOT | to PRAISE | him
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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(E)The caesura. Marks a pause midline (commas, semi-colons, periods, exclamation points, and question marks)Mark a caesura with a double vertical line.Example: And BY | opPOS | ing END | them. || To DIE, | to SLEEP 1 2 3 4 5 6 (E) 7 8 9 10An (E) can also occur before a caesura and at the end of a line. The example below has 12 syllables but is still a regular line.Example: My FA |ther's BRO |ther, || but NO | more LIKE | my FA | ther 1 2 3 4 (E) 5 6 7 8 9 10 (E)Slide10
Intervocalic v
. The elision of "v” between two vowel sounds. (Example: e’er) Elision and changes over time
Some words look in writing like they have more syllables than we usually pronounce
Interest: looks like it has three syllables:
in-te-rest
. But almost everyone pronounces it with two:
in-trest.
Example:
He HATH | more WOR | thy IN |
terest
TO | the STATE
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3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10Expanded endings.In the 1700s, some word endings could be pronounced with an extra syllable, this applies to words ending in “-ed” and “-tion.” Example: Diseased = dis-ease-ehd Imagination = im-ag-in-ay-shee-unhttp://originalpronunciation.com/illustrations/Names.Names are tricky and change a lot, even within a play.Example: Rome-e-oh and Ju- lee –ette can also be Rome Yoh and Jule Yet. Example: Romeo, | Romeo, | Wherefore | art thou | Romeo 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10