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Renaissance Writing: Structure to the EXTREME! British Literature Mrs. Leach

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Renaissance Writing: Structure to the EXTREME!. British Literature Mrs. Leach. Take NOTES!. It is crucial that you take notes on this presentation. The end of this lesson will culminate into YOU writing a Shakespearean Sonnet. You cannot do that if you don’t have the instructions! - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Renaissance Writing: Structure to the EXTREME!

British LiteratureMrs. Leach

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Take NOTES!• It is crucial that you take notes on this

presentation. The end of this lesson will culminate into YOU writing a Shakespearean Sonnet. You cannot do that if you don’t have the instructions!

• This presentation is on my website.

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Elizabethan Poets

• Like modern song writers, Elizabethan poets used strongly emotional language to express their love. They often used a SONNET form.

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Sonnet• 14 line-lyric poem with a single theme.• Each line is IAMBIC PENTAMETER or

5 groups of 2 syllables• WE WILL TALK MORE ABOUT THIS

LATER. FIRST YOU NEED TO LEARN THE BEAT.

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SCANSION• What you will be doing is called

scansion, or the analysis of a poem’s beat/meter.

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POETIC METER

• A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. It is a rhythmic “beat” like the steady pulse that brings you into music.

• VIDEO listen for the BEAT!!

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Finding the BEAT• Think about how people say your name. Where is

the emphasis placed? What syllable sticks out? Take a few moments to discuss a few classmates names and where you place emphasis.

Examples: • saMANtha *GINger*DAvid *aLEXus *Kevin

Don’t put the wrong emPHAsis on the wrong syLAble!

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VIDEO Introduction• Video

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Basic Feet

The basic meter feet or “beats” are :• 1. IAMB• 2. TROCHEE• 3. ANAPEST• 4. DACTYL• 5. SPONDEE• 6. CAESURA

• 7. PYRRHIC• 8. AMPHIBRACH• 9. AMPHIMACER

**you will need to memorize these!!

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IAMB• Definition: a metrical foot consisting of

one unstressed and one stressed

• Symbols: u / • Example: RELIEF

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TROCHEE• Definition: a foot consisting of one

stressed and one unstressed• Symbols: / u • apple• Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble• Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

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ANAPEST• Definition: a metrical foot consisting of

two unstressed and one stressed• Symbols: u u / • Example: introduceTwas the night before Christmas and all through the house,Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.’

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DACTYL• Definition: a metrical foot consisting of

one stressed and 2 unstressed• symbol: / u u • Example: broccoli• A famous example of dactylic meter is in the first few lines of

‘The Lost Leader’ by Robert Browning:• Just for a handful of silver he left us• Just for a rib and to stick in his coat

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SPONDEE• Definition:  foot consisting of two

stressed syllablesSymbols: / / Example: Hog-wild

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CAESURADefinition:  a pauseSymbols: I I *please note that these are different than

the Spondee

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PYRRHIC Definition: two unstressed syllables.• Symbols: u u

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AMPHIMACERDefinition: a metrical foot containing a stressed, unstressed, and a stressed.

Symbols: / u /Example: happy days, la-di-dah

Annie Hall's often-quoted line from the movie of that name is spoken as a amphimacer: "La-di-dah!”CLIP VIDEO

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AMPHIBRACH• Definition: A metrical foot containing an unstressed,

stressed, unstressed.

• Symbol: u / u

• Example: Limericks often contain an element of amphibrachic meter. You can hear it in this first line: “There once was a lady called Joan”

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VIDEO• Watch this video to help reinforce the

information you have just learned.• LINK (watch to 7:09) then pause for

the next several slides.

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Practice the Metrical Pattern

On a sheet of paper, write down the following phrases. Identify the metrical foot of each. Keep in mind to focus on which part of the word gets the most emphasis.

EXAMPLE: I seek to hold the wind1. Best of all, victory!

2. I bought a car today.

3. Look for hidden pitfalls.

4. In the cool of the night.

U- unstressed -stressed

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Practice the Metrical Pattern

Answers

1. Best of all, victory!

2. I bought a car today.

3. Look for hidden pitfalls.

4. In the cool of the night.

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In addition, SCANSION means you have to count up the

amount of feet used. There are names for this too!!

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Dimeter: 2ft./lineTrimeter: 3ft./line

Tetrameter: 4ft./linePentameter: 5ft./lineHexameter: 6ft./line

The most common? Pentameter

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QuatrainA stanza of four lines.

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The TURN/VOLTAA shift in the nature of the SONNET where it begins responding to itself.

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COUPLET

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For the rest of the class: 1. Pass out the “Rhythm, Meter, and Scansion Made Easy”

worksheet.2. Then work on the “Think, Pair, Share Activity 1”