Rhythm in poetry 1

What is rhythm in poetry?

• The musical quality created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

•  The length of a line of poetry

• The use of figurative language in poetry

• The way a poem is structured

What is a metrical foot in poetry?

• A group of syllables that make up a unit of rhythm

• The number of lines in a poem

• The rhyme scheme of a poem

• The way a poem is structured

What is an iamb?

•  A metrical foot with one unstressed and one stressed syllable

• A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables

• A metrical foot with two stressed syllables

•  A metrical foot with three syllables

Which of the following is trochee?

• DAdum

• daDUM

• dadaDUM

• DADAdum

What is the difference between a trochee and an iamb?

•  A trochee has two unstressed syllables and an iamb has two stressed syllables

• A trochee has one stressed and one unstressed syllable, while an iamb has one unstressed and one stressed syllable

• A trochee has three syllables and an iamb has two syllables

• A trochee is a type of poem, while an iamb is a type of rhythm

How many iambs are in iambic pentameter?

• 2

• 4

• 5

• 8

Which of the following is an example of an iambic pentameter?

• To be or not to be, that is the question

•  I wandered lonely as a cloud

• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

• Because I could not stop for Death

What is scansion in poetry?

• The process of analyzing a poem's meter and rhythm

• The way a poem is structured

• The use of figurative language in poetry

• The length of a line of poetry

Which of the following lines from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is written in iambic pentameter?

• "Double, double toil and trouble"

•  "Out, out, brief candle"

• "Is this a dagger which I see before me"

• None of the above

Which of the following lines from John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is written in iambic pentameter?

•  "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter"

• "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"

• "Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss"

•  None of the above