PPT-Ia mbic Pentameter and Sonnets

Understanding Shakespeares Poetic Style Shakespeare wrote 38 plays including Romeo amp Juliet He also wrote about 154 sonnets Shakespeares Sonnets sonnet a fourteenline poem Most of Shakespeares sonnets dealt with themes like love life and death and beauty . Adapted from:. Cooley/. Rutsky. Hoover High School. What is a sonnet?. Sonnets are poems that meet the following rules:. All sonnets are 14 lines long.. Sonnets in English are written in iambic pentameter, which means that each line has 10 syllables, alternating in an unstressed/stressed pattern.. Year . 8. English. . All words with more than one syllable are made up of stressed and unstressed syllables. a. lone . The kitten is all . alone. a/lone . a/LONE . . x / . Pentameter. The Rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. IAMBIC - . A foot is unit of rhythm in poetry and dramatic verse, and an iamb is a 2-syllable rhythm with one unstressed and one stressed. . PENTAMETER - . Not quite “much ado about nothing”. Shakespeare’s Sonnet #2. WHEN forty winters shall besiege thy brow . And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, . Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, . What do you think of . when you hear the term “sonnets”? . Maybe Shakespeare? . Maybe you think Shakespeare is boring, is old, or maybe a little too flowery…. By the end of the semester, this is how you should think of Shakespeare: . What is a sonnet?. A sonnet is a 14 lined poem.. It means “little song.”. It has a strict rhyme scheme.. It uses Iambic Pentameter.. 10 syllables per line.. 5 beats per line.. There are two types…. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?. The Sonnet. The . sonnet. is a versatile form of poetry. Defined by: 14 lines written in . iambic pentameter. . . The first sonnets were written in Italian, but are now written in any language. . 9. th. Grade ELA. What We’ve Learned so far this Year: . Literary Terms. -Character -Antagonist -Protagonist. -Diction -Denotation -Connotation. -Imagery -Mood -Plot . -Exposition -Rising Action -Climax. Definition. Sonnets are poems that usually just focus on one idea. The earliest sonnets were all about love. The name sonnet came from the Old French for little song. Sonnets always have fourteen lines. Poetry. A lyric is a poem that directly expresses the speaker’s thoughts and emotions in a musical way.. The point of view is usually first person.. Marked by imagination, melody, and emotion, a lyric creates for the reader a single unified impression.. The small boy threw the ball into the yard, . but he refused to bring it home.. Lesson 3: Sonnet Intro. Review: Rhyme Scheme, Stanza, Line. On your own sheet of paper, identify the following:. Identify the rhyme scheme. You’ll learn to love this…. Iambic Pentameter. What is Iambic Pentameter?. Iambic: one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. A set of one unstressed and one stressed is called a foot. Petrarchan, Shakespearean, Modern. Petrarch . (. 1304-1374) background . Italian scholar and poet. “Father of the Sonnet”. Gave up his vocation as a priest after sighting Laura. He had very little contact with Laura as she was already married.. Iambic. Each foot of iambic poetry is comprised of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (da DUM).. Invade the castle; enter now!. The stressed and unstressed syllables are charted as below..