Intro Literary Studies – Poetry: Metre Exercises

Question 1

What metrical pattern is represented here: X X (unstressed, unstressed)

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Pyrrhic

Question 2

What do you call a metrically complete line?

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acatalectic

Question 3

What metrical pattern is represented here: / / (stressed, stressed)

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Spondee

Question 4

What metrical pattern is represented here: / X X (stressed, unstressed, unstressed)

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Dactyl

Question 5

The basic unit of metrical analysis, can be unstressed or stressed.

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foot

Question 6

What metrical pattern is represented here: x / (unstressed, stressed)?

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Iamb

Question 7

A line that has one or more extra syllables.

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Hypercatalectic

Question 8

What do you call a line that lacks one or more syllables to be metrically complete?

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catalectic

Question 9

The ordered and systematic succession of feet in a line of poetry is called...

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Metre

Question 10

What metrical pattern is represented here: / X (stressed, unstressed)

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Trochee

Question 11

What metrical pattern is represented here: X X / (unstressed, unstressed, stressed)

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Anapest

Questions 11