“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