Literary Types Shakespearean Language Iambic pentameter is meter that Shakespeare nearly always used when writing in verse Most of his plays were written in iambic pentameter except for lowerclass characters who speak in ID: 544621
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LAP 3 Literary Types
Shakespearean LanguageSlide2
Iambic pentameter is meter
that
Shakespeare nearly always used when writing in verse. Most of his plays were written in iambic pentameter, except for lower-class characters who speak in prose.Meter: the set rhythm of a piece of writingIamb: an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, marked “u/”
Iambic PentameterSlide3
Iambic Pentameter has:
Ten
syllables in each lineFive pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables Iambic Pentameter: 5 iambs in a row “u/u/u/u/u/”Blank Verse: Unrhymed iambic pentameter Shakespeare’s MeterSlide4
The rhythm in each line sounds like: ba
-
BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM unstressed with a u
stressed
is marked with an
x
Most of Shakespeare’s famous quotations fit into this rhythm. For example:u x u x u x u x u xIf mu- / -sic be / the food / of love, / play on Each pair of syllables is called an iambus. You’ll notice that each iambus is made up of one unstressed and one stressed beat (ba-BUM). This is called an iambic foot.
Iambic PentameterSlide5
Parts of
Romeo and Juliet
are written as a sonnet, a poem of 14 lines written and rhymed in iambic pentameter. Each sonnet ends with a couplet. In a Shakespearean sonnet the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GGA couplet is two consecutive lines that rhyme.Iambic pentameter
refers to the rhythm of each line. It is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
“
Bŭt
sóft! Whăt líght throŭgh
yóndĕr wíndŏw bréaks?”
Writing Style and Rhyme SchemeSlide6
Sonnet: 14 line lyric poem with a complicated rhyme scheme and defined structure
Shakespearean Sonnet
: uses iambic pentameter and has 3 quatrains (group of 4 lines) and a couplet1st quatrain introduces the situation3rd quatrain often shows a shift in thoughtCouplet resolves the situationShakespearean SonnetSlide7
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Understanding Shakespearean Language