“All the world’s a stage. All the men and women merely players.”
Don’t hate the players!
Iamb = unstressed syllable, stressed syllablePent = 5Meter = rhythm Feet = measurement
iambic pentameter = 5 metrical feet
Makes a ta-TUM sound
Verse = Poetry
Now is the
winter of our
discontent.
Prose = ordinary speechWe are in
so much emotional pain!
These are couplets
What am I? A sonnet!
I look like a square, I have 14 lines,
I have three quatrains,I end in a rhyming
couplet.
Lines of poetry that make a
QUATRAIN:
4
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.
ASIDEI am now talking directly to the
audience and not to those other two
fellows on stage.
I am now giving a long and serious speech so
the audience can know my thoughts and
feelings.
Soliloquy
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