Poetry, Pentameter and Pirates (based on the Ted Ed video)

Shakespeare's characters often speak in iambic pentameter in time where they feel

• any strong emotions

• Tired

• Shy

• Sad

What is the pattern of sounds in an iamb?

• Stressed, unstressed

• Unstressed, stressed

• Stressed, stressed

• unstressed, unstressed

Iambic pentameter contains ___ feet each of which contains _____syllables.

• 2, 5

• 5,5

• 5,2

• 3,2

Which of these is not a type of metrical feet or pattern?

• Jiggly

• Dactyl

• Iamb

• Trochee

Which of these lines is not in iambic pentameter?

• But soft! What light through yonder window breaks.

• I've got the eye of the tiger

• Just a handful of silver he left us

• So foul and fair a day I have not seen

What word can be used to describe the rhythm or pattern of sounds in a poem?

• Meter

• Beats

• Drums

• Music

Which Shakespeare play uses these trochees in its first lines “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble”

• Romeo and Juliet

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Hamlet

• Macbeth

What was Shakespeare’s favourite meter?

• iambic trimester

• iambic tetrameter

• iambic pentameter

• iambic hexameter

Complete this line from Shakespeare's sonnets: “Shall I Compare Thee to…”

• A dark night

• A summer’s day

• A winter storm

• A spring rain

What part of the body does the sound of iambic pentameter sound like?

• The stomach

• The liver

• The brain

• The heart