Blank Verse

unrhymed verse

• Cacophonous

• Blank Verse

• Challenge

• Counterclaim

WHAT IS BLANK VERSE?

• Something with a blank in it.

• Iambic pentameter

• Without rhyme

• Something that rhymes

JULIUS CAESAR IS WRITTEN IN BLANK VERSE. SO WHY ARE SOME LINES IN THE TEXT SHORTER OR LONGER?

• Differences in pronunciation

• 11 Syllables is a weak meter variation to show a character's lack of certainty or fragility

• A switch to prose shows character is speaking from the head, not the heart

• I HAVE NO IDEA!!!

HOW DID HE MAKE A TOO-LONG LINE SHORTER?

• He used an apostrophe and deleted a syllable from the word.

• He rewrote it.

• He put an accent mark over the suffix of a word ending in "ed" so that it was pronounced.

• Shakespeare cheats? No way!

_______________________ consist of unrhymed iambic pentameter.

• Rhyme verse

• Blank verse

How many beats do blank verse usually have?

• 15

• 6

• 5

• 10

What is blank verse?

• A type of poetry that rhymes

• A type of poetry that does not rhyme

• A type of prose

• A type of song

Which famous playwright is known for using blank verse extensively?

• Christopher Marlowe

• William Shakespeare

• Ben Jonson

• John Milton

Blank verse is often written in which meter?

• Trochaic tetrameter

• Iambic pentameter

• Dactylic hexameter

• Anapestic trimeter

Which of the following is a characteristic of blank verse?

• It has a fixed rhyme scheme

• It is written in free verse

• It is unrhymed

• It is always written in couplets