Poetry meter and feet
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- Q1Which term refers to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry?StanzaSimileMeterRhyme30s
- Q2What is the term for a single unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry?RhymeVerseMeterFoot30s
- Q3In poetry, what is the term for a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, with the first syllable unstressed and the second syllable stressed?PentameterSpondeeTrocheeIamb30s
- Q4Which of the following is an example of a trochaic metrical foot in poetry?EscapeWandererBasketSerenade30s
- Q5What is the term for a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable?DactylIambTrocheeAnapest30s
- Q6What is the term for a verse consisting of five metrical feet, commonly found in English poetry?HeptameterHexameterPentameterTetrameter30s
- Q7How would you chart this line? : "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"Spondaic PentameterTrochaic PentameterIambic TetrameterIambic Pentameter30s
- Q8How would you chart this line? : "On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!"Iambic TrimeterSpondaic Trimeter + TrocheeTrochaic Pentameter + Iamb.Trochaic Tetrameter30s
- Q9How would you chart this line?: "Sighing like a furnace, with a woeful ballad"Iambic TetrameterSpondaic Trimeter.Iambic Tetrameter + SpondeeTrochaic Pentameter30s
- Q10How would you chart this line?: "I wandered lonely as a cloud."Iambic TetrameterTrochaic TetrameterSpondaic PentameterIambic Trimeter30s