Syllables

Syllables are chunks or beats of sound

Syllables

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jump

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jumping

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jumping

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help

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hello

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hello

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pencil

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pencil

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clock

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table

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table

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happy

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happy

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school

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Liverpool

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Liverpool

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carefully

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carefully

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mummy

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mummy

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computer

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computer

What is a stressed syllable?

• stress is the emphasis that may be given to certain syllable(s) in a word.

Example:

• excitement

• ex – cite – ment

• ex – cite – ment

• Mississippi

• Miss – is – sip – pi

• Miss – is – sip - pi

Sometimes, we call.....

stressed syllables, accented syllables.

A stress or an accent mark....

is placed above the syllable with the strongest sound

Example:• excellent

• spaghetti

• wonderful

• intense

Quick Class Assignment

1. Look up any ten words in the dictionary each with 2 or more syllables.

2. Write the word normally.

3. Then, write the dictionary suggestion dividing the syllables.

Example:

• teacher = teach – er

• power = po – wer

• hippopotamus = hip – po – pot – a - mus

What is an iamb?

• It is a two syllable set where the first syllable is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed

• They are called “couplets.”

The iamb is very commom in the English

language.

We often speak in iambic pentameter without even realizing it!

iambic pentameter are 5 iambs or couplets in a row

Take a look....

• I’d like to have you meet a friend of mine.

Look at the following song from “The Hobbit”

Can you figure out the iambs?

The wind was on the withered heath,

but in the forest stirred no leaf:

There shadows lay by night and day,

and dark things silent crept beneath.

The wind was on the withered heath,

but in the forest stirred no leaf:

There shadows lay by night and day,

and dark things silent crept beneath.

Now it’s your turn....

• Try to write 2 lines of poetry where each line contains 5 iambs

• If you succeed, you will have written your poem in iambic pentameter!