iambic pentameter sounds big and sca ry, but what does it mean?
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Iambic Pentameter
• IAMB = metrical FOOT with one unstressed
syllable and a 2nd STRESSED syllable.• PENTA = FIVE!
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.
• 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!