Poetry Rhythm and Meter

What are some examples of poems with iambic meter?

• The Raven, Paradise Lost, Beowulf

• Sonnet 18, The Road Not Taken, Ode to a Nightingale

• To His Coy Mistress, The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

• The Canterbury Tales, The Divine Comedy, The Iliad

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What is anapestic meter?

• A metrical pattern in poetry consisting of one long syllable followed by two short syllables.

• A metrical pattern in poetry consisting of one short syllable followed by two long syllables.

• A metrical pattern in poetry consisting of two short syllables followed by one long syllable.

• A metrical pattern in poetry consisting of three short syllables followed by one long syllable.

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What is dactylic meter?

• A poetic meter consisting of three stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable.

• A poetic meter consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by two stressed syllables.

• A poetic meter consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.

• A poetic meter consisting of two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable.

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What is pyrrhic meter?

• A metrical foot in poetry consisting of two unstressed syllables.

• A metrical foot in poetry consisting of one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.

• A metrical foot in poetry consisting of two stressed syllables.

• A metrical foot in poetry consisting of one stressed syllable and one unstressed syllable.

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What is the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables?

• The difference between stressed and unstressed syllables is the emphasis or force with which they are pronounced.

• The difference between stressed and unstressed syllables is the number of letters they contain.

• The difference between stressed and unstressed syllables is the pitch at which they are pronounced.

• The difference between stressed and unstressed syllables is the length of time they are pronounced.

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What are some examples of poems with trochaic meter?

• The Song of Hiawatha, The Charge of the Light Brigade

• Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy

• The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

• The Raven, Ode to a Nightingale

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What are some examples of poems with anapestic meter?

• The Raven, The Waste Land

• Ode to a Nightingale, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

• The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

• The Night Before Christmas, The Charge of the Light Brigade

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What is the term that refers to any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound in a poem?

• rhythm

• meter

• rhyme

• accented syllable

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The identifying characteristic of rhythmic language that we can tap our foot to

• meter

• rhythm

• foot

• stress

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A foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is called a _____ foot

• iambic

• trochaic

• anapestic

• dactylic

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