Rhyme and Meter in Poetry

What is the definition of meter in poetry?

• The rhyme scheme of a poem

• The number of poetic feet in a line of verse

• The number of verses in a poem

• The length of a poem

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

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What is scansion?

• The process of reading a poem quickly to find literary devices

• The process of analyzing a poem's rhyme scheme

• The process of writing a poem

• The process of marking a poem's foot and meter

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

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What does the term 'foot' refer to in poetry?

• A combination of stressed and unstressed syllables & a building block of meter

• A stanza in a poem

• He's a poet, and he doesn't know it, but his big FEET show it

• A unit of length measurement

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is the purpose of marking a poem's foot and meter?

• To identify grammatical errors

• To highlight favorite lines

• To analyze the rhythm of the poem

• To improve the poem's visual appeal

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What symbol is commonly used to mark stressed syllables?

• A breeve or u

• A slash or minus sign -

• An X

• A carrot ^

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What is Iambic Pentameter?

• A meter with four feet per line

• A meter used exclusively in sonnets

• A meter with five stressed syllables per line

• A meter with ten syllables per line, following an unstressed-stressed pattern

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How can you identify the rhythmic pattern of a line of poetry?

• By identifying the rhyme scheme

• By the length of the line

• By counting the number of words

• By analyzing the stressed and unstressed syllables

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

Why is it important to focus on the words around a syllable when identifying stresses?

• To identify the rhyme scheme

• To determine the poem's length

• To ensure accurate scansion

• To understand the poem's theme

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

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What is a trochaic pattern?

• One unstressed syllable followed by two stressed syllables

• One stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable

• Two unstressed syllables followed by two stressed syllables

• Two stressed syllables followed by two unstressed syllables

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

What is a caesura?

(This is a term you'll talk about in English 4 because it's a feature in Anglo-Saxon poetry. It's not on your test)

• A stressed syllable

• A pause in a line of poetry

• A type of rhyme

• A four-foot meter

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