Literary Devices Macbeth Rhyme Scheme The pattern a

Literary Devices Macbeth

Rhyme Scheme The pattern a poem follows “I do not like green eggs and ham. A I do not like them Sam I am. A I do not like them in a boat. B I do not like them in a goat. B I do not like them in a house. C I do not like them with a mouse. ” C

What are: Couplets and Quatrains? A quatrain is 4 lines; every other line rhymes. A couplet is 2 lines and both lines rhyme.

Verse A grouping of words in a poem. Verse

Iambic Pentameter: FIVE TWO-SYLLABLE GROUPINGS One syllable is UNSTRESSED (U), the other is STRESSED (/) U / U /U/ U / Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits 10 Syllables ALWAYS

Trochaic Tetrameter Its pattern of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is the exact opposite of an iamb. Sounds like: TA-dum Shakespeare used this for his supernatural beings: - witches & faeries. WITCHES: Double, double toil and trouble. DOU ble | TOIL and | TROU ble.

Blank Verse Unrhymed lines of poetry If you say, “The Yankees and the Mets are New York’s Usually in iambic pentameter teams” with natural inflection, you will have spoken a Sounds Blank verse pentameter. islike: the most common form of writing MACBETH: line of iambic used by and Shakespeare. So foul fair a day I have not seen. ta DUM, ta The YANK | ees AND | the METS | are NEW | York’s DUM| and FAIR | a DAY | i HAVE | not SEEN so FOUL TEAMS or, a good way to remember the word “iamb” is to think of it as: i AM, i AM

Irregular Verse v AKA – Free Verse It uses an irregular rhythm Does not follow iambic pentameter/trochaic tetrameter Examples: Poet: e. e. cummings Walt Whitman

Prose is the everyday language (THE WAY WE SPEAK DAILY) used then and now. Shakespeare was breaking literary boundaries using prose. PORTER: Here’s a knocking indeed. If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key. Knock, knock! Who’s there, i’th’name of Beelzebub?

Theme is the “central” or “big idea” of a text. The Natu re of CORRUPTION E vil OF POWER Free Will vs. Fate