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Don’t hate the players!
“All the world’s a stage. All the men and women merely players.”
Iamb = unstressed syllable, stressed syllable
Pent = 5
Meter = rhythm
Feet = measurement
Makes a
ta-TUM
sound
iambic pentameter = 5 metrical feet
Verse = Poetry
Now is the
winter of our
discontent.
Prose = ordinary speech
We are in so
much emotional
pain!
These are couplets
I look like a square,
I have 14 lines,
I have three quatrains,
I end in a rhyming
couplet.
What am I? A sonnet!
Lines of poetry that make a
QUATRAIN:
Shakespeare was born
here.
Why does Shakespeare sound like
that?
It’s because of…
Early Modern English
Elizabethan Era (1558-1603)
Fun fact to know and tell?
Another notable
Early Modern English text -King James Bible.
I am now talking
directly to the
audience and not to
those other two
fellows on stage.
ASIDE
I am now giving a long
and serious speech so
the audience can
know my thoughts and
feelings.
Soliloquy