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Practicing poetic scansion info/use
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What is an iambic foot?
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
a stressed syllable followed by two that are unstressed
two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one
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The analysis of a line of poetry for FOOT and METER; to analyze it rhythmically.
Scansion/Scan
Poetic analysis
Literary criticism
Syllabic analysis
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End rhyme that ends on a stressed syllable
Trochaic
Feminine
Masculine
Dactylic
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Shakespeare's line of work before becoming a playwright?
Glovemaker
Playboy
Politician
Actor
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What impacts stresses in poetry?
Relative importance of the words in the line
All of the above
Grammatical functions
Normal pattern of stresses in the pronunciation
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This is the unit of measure in poetry (two syllables)
syllable
foot
meter
word
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What is a trochaic foot?
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
two unstressed syllables
two stressed syllables
a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
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What is the rhyme scheme and meter for this: - / - / - / - / - /
Iambic Trimeter
Iambic Pentameter
Anapestic Tetrameter
Trochaic Octameter
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What is the rhyme scheme and meter for this: / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / -?
Trochaic Octameter
Iambic Pentameter
Trochaic Tetrameter
Iambic Trimeter
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Getting rid of a syllable so the line will scan
Negation
Scansion
caesura
Elision
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What is the rhyme scheme and meter for this: - / - / - /
Iambic Trimeter
Trochaic Octameter
Iambic Pentameter
Trochaic Tetrameter
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Talking directly to someone/something not there.
Antithesis
Synechdoche
Apostrophe
Address
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What do you call lines where the sentence or clause continues for onto the next line of verse?
Masculine
Feminine
Caesura
Enjambment
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What is verbal irony?
funny situations
more than one meaning for a phrase
when the audience knows what characters do not
the difference between expected and actual results
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"Much Madness is divinest Sense" is an example of:
paradox
oxymoron
dramatic irony
synecdoche
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Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Consonance
Alliteration
Apostrophe
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What is the first line of the play we are reading?
O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
To be or not to be - that is the question
Who's there?
Long live the king
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What word means one foot in a line?
single meter
unimeter
unometer
monometer
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What do you call the difference between the expected result and the actual result?
Dramatic Irony
Apostrophe
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
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End rhyme that ends on unstressed syllable
Feminine
Iambic
Anapestic
Masculine
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This meter is called "the heartbeat" of the Shakepearean theater
trochaic pentameter
iambic trimeter
iambic pentameter
iambic tetrameter
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What is spondaic foot?
two unstressed syllables
a stressed syllable followed a stressed syllable
a stressed syllable followed unstressed
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
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What means seven feet in a line?
Pentameter
Tetrameter
Heptameter
Hexameter
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The number of feet in a line of poetry.
Foot
scansion
Meter
syllables
