Act 1 Soliloquies and Dialogue

Act 1 Soliloquies and Dialogue

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Open Ended

Take the time to complain here. Let's take a few minutes to vent. If you're willing to share, what's going on with you? What is making you stressed, if anything? If you want to say something good, do that here too.

Iambic Pentameter

•Meter is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

•Metered verse has rules about placement and number of syllables and stresses per line

•Remember, an Iamb is 1 unstressed, 1 stressed, and pentameter means 5 of them

Masculine Endings

• Exactly 10 syllables

Feminine Endings

• 11 syllables, incomplete iamb

• More twisty, bendy, “interesting,” unsure

Multiple Choice

How many syllables does a feminine ending to a line have?

• 10

• 11

Open Ended

What do you think Lady Macbeth is asking for? Explain in 1-2 sentences.

Count the syllables in each line.

Multiple Select

What does prose usually indicate? Check all that apply.

• They’re covering something up

• Connected with imagination, cleverness

• Anything you pick up and read

• Equal to sincerity, depth of emotion, your heartbeat