WorksheetsPoetry, Pentameter and Pirates (based on the Ted Ed video)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 16mins
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
Draw a picture to remind yourself what iambic pentameter means.
What questions do you have about iambic pentameter or other forms of meter in Shakespeare?
Write a line of Iambic Pentameter about today.
The general word for the use of rhythmical patterns in poetry/verse is (a)
Iambs and Trochees are types of:
Metrical Feet
Metrical Hands
Metrical legs
Metrical arms
