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Poetry Rhythm/Meter - LArts 8

Quiz by Erin Kerttula

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  • Q1
    This type of poem does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
    Free Verse
    Ballad
    Sonnet
    Blank Verse
    30s
  • Q2
    What vocabulary word describes the repetition of sounds at the end of words?
    meter
    feet
    rhyme
    rhythm
    30s
  • Q3
    What vocabulary word describes a general OR specific pattern of stressed syllables and unstressed syllables?
    meter
    rhythm
    feet
    rhyme
    30s
  • Q4
    What vocabulary word describes a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry?
    meter
    rhyme
    rhythm
    feet
    30s
  • Q5
    What vocabulary word describes a specific pattern of stressed syllables and unstressed syllables?
    rhythm
    rhyme
    feet
    meter
    30s
  • Q6
    A poetic foot pattern of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
    Anapest
    Dactyl
    Iamb
    Trochee
    30s
  • Q7
    A poetic foot pattern of two stressed syllables.
    Spondee
    Iamb
    Dactyl
    Trochee
    30s
  • Q8
    A poetic foot pattern of two unstressed syllables.
    Anapest
    Iamb
    Pyrrhic
    Spondee
    30s
  • Q9
    A poetic foot pattern of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
    Dactyl
    Pyrrhic
    Anapest
    Iamb
    30s
  • Q10
    A poetic foot pattern of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.
    Trochee
    Dactyl
    Spondee
    Anapest
    30s
  • Q11
    A poetic foot pattern of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable.
    Pyrrhic
    Trochee
    Anapest
    Dactyl
    30s
  • Q12
    Prosody is the word that describes the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.
    False
    True
    30s
  • Q13
    Scansion is the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm.
    True
    False
    30s
  • Q14
    BONUS - Identify the foot and meter of the following lines from William Shakespeare: Double double toil and trouble / Fire burn and cauldron bubble
    Trochaic tetrameter
    Iambic octameter
    Dactylic dimeter
    Anapestic pentameter
    30s
  • Q15
    BONUS - Identify the foot and meter of the following lines from Emily Dickinson: We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground – The Roof was scarcely visible – The Cornice – in the Ground –
    Iambic monometer/dimeter
    Iambic tetrameter/trimeter
    Dactylic dimeter/trimeter
    Anapestic tetrameter/pentameter
    30s

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