What is alliterative verse?

A varied number of syllables but a fixed number of stresses

Which of these meters is referred to as blank verse?

lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter

A foot with an unaccented and accented syllable

Which of these is a heroic couplet?

A rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines

What is a double or ionic foot?

A pyrrhic foot followed by a spondee, often at a line start

What is accentual-syllabic verse?

Focuses on both number of stresses and number of syllables

What is a courtesy accent?

Word gets more than normal conversational stress; fills line

The meaning runs from one poetry line to the next

A natural pause in the middle of line

What is quantitative verse?

Regulates the patterns of long and short syllables

What is syllabic verse?

Counts the number of syllables in a line

Study of the rhythm of poetry, specifically literary effect

What is ballad meter/common meter?

4 lines of alternate iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter

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Literary Criticism: Poetry Terms--Meter

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What is a tetrameter line?
A line with five feet
A line with three feet
A line with no feet
A line with four feet
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What is an amphibrach?
Unstressed+unstressed
Unstressed+stressed+unstressed
Unstressed+stressed+stressed
Stressed+stressed+stressed
3
What is free verse?
No rhyme, but meter
A verse with three different meters
Each stanza has a different meter
No fixed meter and no end rhyme
4
What is scansion?
The cadence of a poem
When some words must be given more than conversation stress
System of describing metrical effect
The length or number of verses in a poem
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What is alliterative verse?
A varied number of stresses but a fixed number of syllables
The total number of unstressed syllables in a line
A varied number of syllables but a fixed number of stresses
The pattern of line meter differs from one to the other
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What is it to scan a poem?
To analyze its meaning
To write down all of its poetic devices
To copy it down
To determine its meter
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Which of these meters is referred to as blank verse?
lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter
iambic tetrameter
two dactylic tetrameter lines
Spondaic pentameter
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What is an iamb?
The stress that falls on a syllable
A foot with two unaccented syllables
A foot with an unaccented and accented syllable
The foot itself
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Which of these is a heroic couplet?
Two dactylic pentameter lines paired together
An unrhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines
Two iambic tetrameter lines
A rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines
10
What is a double or ionic foot?
A line with alternating feet types
When there are only two feet in a line
English often has 4 stresses a line, a 5 foot line has this
A pyrrhic foot followed by a spondee, often at a line start
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What is a pyrrhic foot?
Stressed+unstressed+unstressed
Unstressed+unstressed
Stressed+stressed
Stressed+unstressed
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What is a trochee?
Unstressed+stressed
Stressed+stressed
Unstressed+unstressed
Stressed+unstressed
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What is accentual-syllabic verse?
An Old English version of accentual verse
Focuses on both number of stresses and number of syllables
How the stresses and syllables work together in a line
It doesn't exist
14
What is a pentameter line?
A line with five feet
A line with four feet
A line with 15 feet
A line with three feet
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What is a courtesy accent?
When there is a trochee in an iambic line
Word gets more than normal conversational stress; fills line
When the final unstressed syllable is omitted
When there is a pyrrhic foot followed by a spondee
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What is enjambment?
A dash at the end of a line
The meaning runs from one poetry line to the next
A line that is not a complete sentence
An incomplete word in the line
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What is a caesura?
A linebreak
Two lines at the end of poem
A natural pause in the middle of line
The last line of a stanza
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What is quantitative verse?
The number of syllables in the lines
Only focuses on the number of syllables in a line
Regulates the patterns of long and short syllables
Only focuses on the number of stresses in a line
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What is an anapest?
Stressed+unstressed+unstressed
Unstressed+unstressed+stressed
Stressed+stressed+unstressed
Unstressed+stressed+unstressed
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What is a dactyl?
Stressed+unstressed+stressed
Unstressed+stressed
Stressed+stressed
Stressed+unstressed+unstressed
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What is syllabic verse?
Counts the number of syllables in a line
Patterns of long and short syllables
Number of syllables differ from one line to the other
Focuses on stresses and total number of syllables
22
What does the metrical system of accentual verse focus on?
Number of offbeats in a line
Number of stresses in a line
Number of syllables in a line
Number of stresses and off beats in a line
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What is a reversed foot?
A trochee in an iambic line
A pyrrhic foot followed by a spondee
When the feet styles switch back & forth throughout the line
A spondee in a trochaic line
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What is prosody?
How conversational a poem is
Study of the rhythm of poetry, specifically literary effect
Determining as poem's meter
Metrical effect
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What is ballad meter/common meter?
Two iambic pentameter lines and two iambic tetrameter lines
Four lines of rhymed iambic pentameter
Four lines of alternate rhyming, abab
4 lines of alternate iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter
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What is a spondee?
Stressed+stressed
Stressed+unstressed
Stressed+unstressed+unstressed
Stressed+unstressed+stressed

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