AP Lit Rhythm/Meter

What is rhythm

• an irregular beat

• anything repetitive

• a wavelike recurrence of motion or sound

• a reader's sense of timing in a poem

Which of the following is true about an accented or stressed syllable?

• it has more prominence in its pronunciation

• It can only exist in words of more than two syllables

• It is always relevant to rhyme scheme

• there is only one stressed syllable in every multi-syllabic word

Which statement is true about rhetorical stresses in speech?

• We use them because there is only one way to stress meaning in a given phrase.

• We use them to make subtle intentions clear.

• We only use them to reflect emotion.

• They are useful when the last word in phrase must be emphasized in meaning.

What is the difference between an end-stopped line and a run-on line in poetry?

• An end-stopped line has a period or colon while a run-on line has no punctuation at the end.

• An end-stopped line is an end of the specific topic or thought of the poet, while a run-on line indicates the topic will continue to the next line at least.

• An end-stopped line as a momentary pause in speech, while a run-on line has a momentary pause in thought or topic,

• An end-stopped line has natural pause in speech, while a run-on line moves on to the next line without a punctuational pause.

What is free verse?

• A poem whose only difference from prose is line arrangement.

• A poem with no particular flow of punctuation.

• A poem whose line arrangement has strict rhythms and meters

• A poem without internal rhyme

Metrical verse is best described as

• poems that contain a regular rhyme scheme

• poems that have a regular meter

• poems that have predominately end-stopped lines

• free verse with no punctuation

Meter can best be described as

• The same thing as rhythm

• poetry with regular rhyme patterns

• poems where the accentuated language happens in regular intervals of time

• Poetry with very strict patterns of rhythm

Which of the following does Perrine say about the difference between rhythm and meter?

• They both relate to rhyme

• Rhythm is the flow of sound, while meter is patterns into which a poet creates sound

• Rhythm is something you can tap your foot to, while meter is more subtle

• Essentially they are the same thing

Which of the following is the most completely true statement about a "foot" in poetry?

• it is the basic unit of the poetic meter

• it helps predict rhyme scheme

• it is the basic unit of the poetic meter and one accented syllable plus one or two unaccented syllables.

• It is the basic unit of the poetic meter but has no consistency in pattern.

The process for defining the metrical form of a poem is called?

• truncation

• metrical variation

• meter substitution

• scansion