Sonnets + R&J Acts 1-2

What is a metric foot?

• The metrical rhythm in a poem

• Unrhymed iambic pentameter

• A unit of syllables in a poem

• The length of a poem

Match the following -

• trochee

• 2 syllables

  (1 stressed + 1 unstressed)

• anapest

• 2 syllables

  (both syllables are stressed)

• iamb

• 3 syllables

  (2 unstressed + 1 stressed)

• dactyl

• 2 syllables

  (1 unstressed + 1 stressed)

• spondee

• 3 syllables

  (1 stressed + 2 unstressed)

Blank Verse is (a)   iambic pentameter.

• unrhymed
• rhymed

Match the following name of the meter to the listed number of feet -

• 4

• dimeter

• 6

• hexameter

• 2

• tetrameter

• 3

• pentameter

• 5

• trimeter

7 metric feet in a line is called ​ (a)   , while 8 metric feet is called ​ ​ (b)   .

• heptameter
• octameter

A rhyming couplet is -

• 2 lines in a poem that rhyme

• 3 lines in a poem that rhyme

• 4 lines in a poem that rhyme

• 5 lines in a poem that rhyme

What is a quatrain?

• 2 lines in a poem that rhyme

• 3 lines in a poem that rhyme

• 4 lines in a poem that rhyme

• 5 lines in a poem that rhyme

What is a tercet?

• 2 lines in a poem that rhyme

• 3 lines in a poem that rhyme

• 4 lines in a poem that rhyme

• 5 lines in a poem that rhyme

Shakespearean (English) sonnets use what rhyme scheme?

(a)  

Italian sonnets use what rhyme scheme?

(a)