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Week # 11A poetic meter vocabulary quiz

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A foot (or feet) in poetry is
a)
a unit of rhythm
b)
a unit of punctuation
c)
a unit of algorhythms
d)
a unit of verbs
e)
2.
Shakespeare wrote mainly in what type of meter and feet
a)
Trochaic trimeter
b)
Dactylic pentameter
c)
Iambic pentameter
d)
Anapestic tetrameter
e)
3.
In poetry, meter is
a)
The basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
b)
The basic grammatical strucutre of verse or lines in verse.
c)
The basic dramatic structure of verse or lines in verse.
d)
The basic linear structure of verse or lines in verse.
e)
4.

Monometer is

a)

five feet

b)

one foot

c)

two feet

d)

three feet

5.

Dimeter is

a)

one foot

b)

five feet

c)

two feet

d)

6 feet

6.

trimeter is

a)

four feet

b)

one foot

c)

three feet

d)

ive feet

7.

tetrameter

a)

four feet

b)

five feet

c)

six feet

d)

seven feet

8.

pentameter

a)

10 feet

b)

five feet

c)

four feet

d)

six feet

9.

hexameter

a)

two feet

b)

three feet

c)

six feet

d)

nine feet

10.

heptameter

a)

one foot

b)

six feet

c)

five feets

d)

seven feet

11.

octameter

a)

eight feet

b)

nine feet

c)

eleven feet

d)

seven feet

12.

iamb

a)

unstressed, unstressed

b)

stresed, unstressed

c)

unstressed, stresed

d)

stressed,stressed

13.

Troche

a)

stressed, unstressed

b)

unstressed, stressed

c)

stressed, stressed

d)

unstressed, unstressed

14.

Anapest

a)

2 unstressed, 2 stressed

b)

2 unstressed, 1 stressed

c)

2 stressed, 1 unstressed

d)

2 stressed, 2 unstressed

15.

Dactyl

a)

1 stressed, 2 unstressed

b)

1 unstressed, 2 unstressed

c)

2 unstressed, 2 stressed

d)

2 stressed, 2 unstressed

16.

Spondee

a)

2 stressed, 1 unstressed

b)

2 unstressed, 1 stressed

c)

2 stressed

d)

2 unstressed

17.

Pyrrhic

a)

2 unstressed

b)

2 unstressed, 1 stressed

c)

1, stressed, 1 unstressed

d)

2 stressed