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3 of 4 Rhythm and Meter in Poetry

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 23mins

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Class
Date

1-10.

Answer the questions below after watching the video

1.

What is the primary characteristic that defines poetry, as mentioned in the video?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Rhyme

c)

Rhythm

d)

Imagery

2.

Which type of poetic foot consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable?

a)

Anapest

b)

Iamb

c)

Dactyl

d)

Trochee

3.

What meter is used in the line 'But soft, what light through yonder window breaks' from Romeo and Juliet?

a)

Anapestic tetrameter

b)

Trochaic tetrameter

c)

Dactylic hexameter

d)

Iambic pentameter

4.

Which type of meter consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable?

a)

Anapestic

b)

Trochaic

c)

Iambic

d)

Dactylic

5.

Which poetic foot is characterized by a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables?

a)

Iamb

b)

Spondee

c)

Anapest

d)

Dactyl

6.

Which famous poem by William Blake uses trochaic meter?

a)

The Tyger

b)

The Lamb

c)

London

d)

A Poison Tree

7.

Which meter is demonstrated in the line 'Half a league, half a league, half a league onward'?

a)

Iambic

b)

Anapestic

c)

Dactylic

d)

Spondaic

8.

What is the term for a poetic foot consisting of two stressed syllables?

a)

Spondee

b)

Trochee

c)

Iamb

d)

Pyrrhic

9.

What is the poetic term for a line with five feet?

a)

Pentameter

b)

Trimeter

c)

Hexameter

d)

Tetrameter

10.

What does the term 'Pyrrhic' signify in the context of poetry?

a)

A foot with two stressed syllables

b)

A foot with two unstressed syllables

c)

A line with no regular meter

d)

A line with five feet

11.

What is rhythm?

a)

a poem with no regular rhythm

b)

words that imitate sounds

c)

emphasis on certain syllables throughout a piece

d)

words and/or lines that repeat

12.

When a poem has Rhythm it means:

a)

a musical quality or beat

b)

people in the poem can dance

c)

the poem can be turned into a song

13.

Rhythm is the repeating patterns of sounds

a)

False

b)

True

14.

The number of syllables in a line and how they are accented that creates the poem's beat or rhythm is called

a)

meter

b)

rhyme

c)

line

d)

repetition

15.

What do all poems written in iambic pentameter have in common?

a)

Number of lines

b)

Rhyme scheme

c)

Rhythmic pattern

d)

Ornate, descriptive language

16.

What is the meter of a poem?

a)

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

b)

the beat of the poem

c)

lines grouped together like a paragraph

17.

What is the definition of meter?

a)

A stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem

b)

A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning

c)

Repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable

d)

An extreme exaggeration

18.

The meter of a poem is the ____________ or _____________ of the words in the poem. (select two)

a)

rhythm

b)

color

c)

movement

d)

measurement

19.

In poetry, what is "meter?"

a)

The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables

b)

The length of a poem

c)

Words that sound the same

d)

Sophisticated vocabulary

20.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" has the structure of iambic pentameter. It looks like...

a)

/u/u/u/u/u

b)

u/u/u/u/u/