Iambic Pentameter

True or False: Shakespeare favored iambic pentameter.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What does the root “pent” mean? (Think about the word pentagon.)

• four

• five

• six

• seven

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

True or False: Iambic Pentameter was Shakespeare's Favorite

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Iambic Pentameter means

• each line of verse is made up of five two syllable iambs

• there are only 5 lines in the entire poem

• there are only 10 syllables in the poem

• none of the above

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is the symbol used to denote stressed syllables in the study of meter?

• ^

• u

• /

• *

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the symbol used to denote unstressed syllables in the study of meter?

• ^

• u

• /

• *

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

How many syllables are there in each line of a verse written in Iambic Pentameter?

• 5 syllables

• 8 syllables

• 10 syllables

• 12 syllables

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the primary meter used in the play according to the learning material?

• Trochaic tetrameter

• Anapestic hexameter

• Iambic pentameter

• Dactylic dimeter

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

What is a couplet and what does it usually signal in a play?

• A couplet is two consecutive lines that rhyme and signals the introduction of a new character.

• A couplet is a four-line stanza with alternating rhymes and indicates the start of a monologue.

• A couplet is two consecutive lines that rhyme and indicates a change or the end of a scene.

• A couplet is a poem with fourteen lines and shows when it is time for the climax of the plot.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

Is this line written in iambic pentameter? For soon enough the woods, the hawk, and he

• Yes

• No

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CCSS.RL.7.4