{"id":22537,"date":"2017-08-09T15:03:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=22537"},"modified":"2017-08-09T15:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T15:03:53","slug":"english-iambic-pentameter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-iambic-pentameter\/","title":{"rendered":"English: iambic pentameter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, iambic pentameter eventually arises.  The tutor defines it.<\/h1>\n<p><em>Iambic pentameter<\/em> means that a line is ten syllables, with every second emphasized.  (An <em>iamb<\/em> is two beats, the first one light, but the second accented.  <em>Pentameter<\/em> means there are five of them.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be talking about the uses of iambic pentameter in coming posts.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Coles Notes, <em>Literary Terms<\/em>. Toronto: Coles Publishing, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, iambic pentameter eventually arises. The tutor defines it. Iambic pentameter means that a line is ten syllables, with every second emphasized. (An iamb is two beats, the first one light, but the second accented. Pentameter means there are &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-iambic-pentameter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: iambic pentameter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2433],"class_list":["post-22537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-what-is-iambic-pentameter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22537"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22555,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions\/22555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}