Exams
Students are eligible to sit an exam from the age of seven.
Kindergarten to Grade Three.
No late fees will be accepted by the Royal Irish Academy.
Fees can be paid now and closing date is January 9th 2012.
The fees are set by the Academy and there is no separate administrative charge added. However, if you are paying fees by cheque please make it payable to YPT as they will not accept individual personal cheques.
RIAM Table of Fees for 2011
Kindergarten/Preliminary/Primary 30.00
Grade One 42.50
Grade Two 49.00
Grade Three 54.50
Theory Notes:
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Blank verse (see below). Characterisation plus knowledge of play and author, poet and a comprehensive knowledege of all previous grades.
What is blank verse?
Shakespeare did not write exclusively in iambics. “Metre” being a Greek word meaning “measure”. We “measure” the rhythm in a line of verse by the number of stresses we find in it and by the repeated groups of syllables which create that rhythm- these are called “feet” .
In iambic pentameter, there are five feet in a verse line, each foot consisting of two syllables. The IAMBIC Stress pattern is light/heavy. If we take Macbeth’s line, ‘But wherefore could I not pronounce Amen?’, the iambic stresses give the line the following shape (’o’ represents a light stress and ‘-‘ a heavy stress)
o - o - o - o - o -
But where / fore could / I not / pronounce/ Amen? //
If we reverse the rhythm and put the stress on the first syllable we have a TROCHAIC rhythm.
- o - o - o - o
If we / spirits / have of / fended //
This example is TROCHAIC TETRAMETER because there are only four feet in the line. You should also mention the two triple rhythms:
DACTYLIC; one heavy stress followed by two light stresses.
- o o
“Dactylic” derives from a Greek word meaning “finger” and describes the appropriate shape – one long joint followed by two short ones.
- o o
“Cookery” is a naturally dactylic word
ANAPAESTIC: two light stresses followed by one heavy stress.
