Poetry 2.5 Meters

• Which of the following is not an example of a verse with a meter :

• • Iambic pentameter

• • Iambic meter

• • Iambic foot

• • Trochee

• Anagram

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The meter of a poem is defined as:

• The overall theme of a poem expressed through its narrative.
• The length of a poem measured in lines and stanzas.
• The emotional tone of a poem determined by its imagery.
• The rhythmic structure of a poem defined by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a verse.

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If a poem pattern is stressed then unstressed in sequence, what is this called?

For example in John Milton's Paradise Lost

Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song,

That with no middle flight intends to soar.

• Trochaic meter
• Anapestic meter
• Dactylic meter
• Iambic Rhythm

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When a whole verse follows the pattern structure of stressed then unstressed then this is referred to as:

• Trochaic meter
• Iambic meter
• Anapestic meter
• Dactylic meter

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The most common type iambic rhythm poems use:

• Iambic pentameter

• Free Verse
• Limerick
• Haiku

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This meter has 4 stressed syllables:

• Hexameter

• Tetrameter

• Trimeter

• Monometer

• Dimeter

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This meter has 8 stressed syllables:

• Heptameter

• Octameter

• Monometer

• Hexameter

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The following meters have how many stressed syllables?

a. Diameter

b. Trimeter

c. Heptameter

d. Monometer

• a. 2

  b. 1

  c. 6

  d. 3

• a. 2

  b. 1

  c. 7

  d. 3

• a. 2

  b. 3

  c. 7

  d. 1

• a. 2

  b. 3

  c. 6

  d. 1

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This poem is an example of what meter?

Twas the night before Christmas

when all through the house.

(unstressed, unstressed, stressed)

• pentameter

• tetrameter

• Anapest

• Trochee

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This is an example of what type of meter?

Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

• Anapest

• hexameter

• Iambic pentameter

• Trochee

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