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LESSON

A Drum, A Drum! Macbeth Doth Come: Rhythm, Metre and Sound

Overview

4 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare use sound and form for different effects?
Key words
  • Ambition
  • Catalectic
  • Emphasis
  • Feminine/ masculine endings
  • Hypercatalectic
  • Iambic pentameter
  • Metre
  • Power and status
  • Prose
  • Sound
  • Supernatural
  • Tripartite
  • Trochaic tetrameter

Lesson objectives

  1. Analysis of language, verse form, and structure (AO2)
  2. Understanding of character and theme (AO2)
  3. Understanding the trinity archetype and context of the witches (AO3)
  4. Accurate spelling of sophisticated vocabulary (AO4)

In this lesson