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Metre in Poetry
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Which of these words is a spondee?
aardvark
September
poetry
understand
2
"My blessing to your kind in air"
iambic pentameter
iambic tetrameter
anapestic tetrameter
anapestic pentameter
3
Which line has a medial caesura?
Darkly I touch his fragile scars
Stars in a wilderness of stars
I reach out and flick out the light
So far away, so delicate
4
How many feet in tetrameter?
5
4
3
2
5
Which of these words is a dactyl?
poetry
aardvark
September
understand
6
What is scansion?
the composition of rhymed poetry
the metrical analysis of a poem
the deliberate variation of meter
the splicing together of separate lines
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Which of these words contains
two
stressed syllables?
poetry
understand
September
aardvark
8
Which of these words is an anapest?
understand
September
poetry
aardvark
9
"Double, double, toil and trouble"
trochaic tetrameter
dactylic tetrameter
anapestic tetrameter
iambic tetrameter
10
Identify the metric line: "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?"
trochaic trimeter
anapestic dimeter
dactylic hexameter
iambic pentameter
11
In poetry, what is a foot?
The rhythm of a line of poetry
An appendix to a leg
A unit of measure made of stressed and/or unstressed syllables
A series of unstressed syllables
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What is a caesura?
A run-on line of poetry
A strong phrasal pause within a line
A pause at the end of a line
A method of giving birth
13
How many feet in hexameter?
6
5
7
8
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Which line has a "feminine" ending?
"To rest at the head of a mallet held in the hands of a child"
"I wander thro' each chartered street"
"Willows whiten, aspens shiver"
"He clasps the crag with crooked hands"
15
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house"
trochaic heptameter
dactylic monometer
iambic trimeter
anapestic tetrameter
16
"He clasps the crag with crooked hands"
iambic hexameter
trochaic trimeter
iambic tetrameter
trochaic pentameter
