Meter and Scansion

Define a metrical 'foot'

• The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse.

• The foot is a measuring unit that isn't made up of syllables.

• The metrical foot is something at the end of a leg of a table holding a poetry book.

• The foot is blank verse.

Which of the following is Iamb?

• DAdum

• daDUM

• dadaDum

• DADAdum

Which of the following is trochee?

• DAdum

• daDUM

• dadaDUM

• DADAdum

What is falling metre?

• Goes from unstressed to stressed.

• Goes from unstressed to unstressed.

• Goes from stressed to stressed.

• Goes from stressed to unstressed.

What is the effect the kind of foot used in lines of poetry?

• imagery

• sibilance

• metaphor

• rhythm

Which of the following are types of iambic meter?

• iambic trimester, iambic tetramester, iambic pentamester

• iambic trimeter, iambic tetrameter, iambic pentameter

• iambic trimunster, iambic tetramunster, iambic pentamunster

• Lambic trimester, Lambic tetrameter, Lambic pentameter

How many iambs in iambic pentameter?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Define blank verse

• verse that doesn't have a blank

• verse that is blank

• lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

• lines of unrhyming iambic pentameter

Which of the following is a trochee?

• Sw

• sW

• sS

• wW

Trochaic means falling rhythm and it's the opposite of...

• trochee

• unstressed syllables

• stressed syllables

• iambic