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Meter and Scansion

Authored by Margaret Anderson

English

9th Grade - University

CCSS covered

Meter and Scansion
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

beat

metre

poetry

rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem. 

verse
alliteration
stanza
enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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anapest or anapestic ("un-der-stand")

unstressed stressed

stressed unstressed

unstressed unstressed stressed

stressed unstressed unstressed

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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trochee or trochaic ("high-way")

unstressed stressed

stressed unstressed

unstressed unstressed stressed

stressed unstressed unstressed

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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dactyl or dactyllic ("cer-tain-ly")

unstressed stressed

stressed unstressed

unstressed stressed stressed

stressed unstressed unstressed

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Iambic ("a-bove")

unstressed stressed

stressed unstressed

unstressed unstressed stressed

stressed unstressed unstressed

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one ("GAR-den")

anapest

dactyl

iamb

trochee

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.K.5

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