Syllables

Syllables

What are
syllables?
Syllables are chunks or beats
of sound
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jump
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word have?
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jumping
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word have?
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jumping
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word have?
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help
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word have?
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hello
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word have?
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hello
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word have?
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pencil
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word have?
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pencil
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word have?
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clock
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word have?
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table
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word have?
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table
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word have?
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happy
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word have?
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happy
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school
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Liverpool
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Liverpool
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carefully
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word have?
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carefully
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mummy
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mummy
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computer
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computer
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What is a
• stress is the
stressed emphasis that may
syllable? be given to certain
syllable(s) in a
word.
Example:
• excitement
• ex – cite – ment
• ex – cite – ment

• Mississippi
• Miss – is – sip – pi
• Miss – is – sip - pi
Sometimes, we
call.....
stressed
syllables,
accented
syllables.
A stress or an
accent mark....
is placed above
the syllable
with the
strongest
sound
Example:
• excellent

• spaghetti

• wonderful

• intense
Quick
Class 1. Look up any ten words
Assignment in the dictionary each
with 2 or more
syllables.
2. Write the word
normally.
3. Then, write the
dictionary suggestion
dividing the syllables.
 Example:
• teacher = teach – er

• power = po – wer

• hippopotamus = hip – po – pot – a - mus

What is an iamb?
• It is a two syllable
set where the first
syllable is
unstressed and the
second syllable is
stressed
• They are called
“couplets.”
 The iamb is
very commom We often speak in
in the English iambic
pentameter
language. without even
realizing it!
iambic pentameter
are 5 iambs or
couplets in a row
Take a look....
• I’d like to have you meet a friend of mine.
Look at the following song from
“The Hobbit”

Can you figure out the iambs?

The wind was on the withered heath,
but in the forest stirred no leaf:
There shadows lay by night and day,
and dark things silent crept beneath.
The wind was on the withered heath,
but in the forest stirred no leaf:
There shadows lay by night and day,
and dark things silent crept beneath.
Now it’s your turn....
• Try to write 2 lines of
poetry where each line
contains 5 iambs
• If you succeed, you
will have written your
poem in iambic
pentameter!