Meter and Rhythm

Question 1

What is the foot and meter of the following line?

U / U / U / U /

Answer 1

Iambic tetrameter

Question 2

What kind of rhythm is this: / U

Answer 2

Trochee

Question 3

What is a meter with 6 feet?

Answer 3

Hexameter

Question 4

What is a line with 6 feet called ?

Answer 4

Hexameter

Question 5

What is a meter with 2 feet called ?

Answer 5

Dimeter

Question 6

What is a meter with 3 feet called ?

Answer 6

Trimeter

Question 7

What is a meter with 4 feet called ?

Answer 7

Tetrameter

Question 8

What is a meter with 5 feet called ?

Answer 8

Pentameter

Question 9

What is a meter with 7 feet called ?

Answer 9

Heptameter

Question 10

What is a meter with 8 feet called ?

Answer 10

Octameter

Question 11

What kind of foot is this : U U /

Answer 11

Anapest

Question 12

What kind of foot is this: On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool.

Answer 12

Anapestic

Question 13

Describe in symbols (U and /) a line that is iambic hexameter.

Answer 13

U / U / U / U / U / U /

Question 14

What kind of foot features three syllables, the first two being unstressed and the last one stressed?

Answer 14

Anapest (An anapestic rhythm)

Question 15

How do we call the type of foot that has an unstressed/stressed pattern?

Answer 15

Iamb

Question 16

What is the foot and meter of the following line?

“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.”

Answer 16

Iambic pentameter

Question 17

What is meter?

Answer 17

A stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern within the lines of a poem (a meter contains several feet)

Question 18

stressed/unstressed/unstressed (/,U,U)

Answer 18

Dactyl

Question 19

Is the word “emphasis” a dactyl?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

Scan this line:

“This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pine and the hemlock.”

Answer 20

Dactylic hexameter

Question 21

What is a foot?

Answer 21

A set number of syllables that are stressed or unstressed

Question 22

What is a mnemonic device for the dactyl?

Answer 22

A pterodactyl flying down and grabbing two sheep with it.

Question 23

Is the word “anapest” a dactyl?

Answer 23

Yes

Question 24

“That time of year thou mayst in me behold.”

What is the meter?

Answer 24

Iambic Pentameter

Question 25

"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day." | What kind of meter is this?

Answer 25

iambic Pentameter

Question 26

Is the word "primeval" a dactyl?

Answer 26

No.

Question 27

What is the foot and meter? | / U U / U U / U U

Answer 27

Dactylic trimeter

Question 28

What is the rule of thumb for one syllabic words ?

Answer 28

Important words are stressed and unimportant words are unstressed.

Question 29

In the rule of thumb, what are important words?

Answer 29

Nouns, verbs and adj

Question 30

In the rule of thumb, what are unimportant words?

Answer 30

articles, prepositions, conjonctions

Question 31

"Double, double, toil and trouble;" | What kind of meter is this?

Answer 31

trochaic Tetrameter

Question 32

"And the sound of a voice that is still" | What kind of meter is this?

Answer 32

anapestic Trimeter

Question 33

"Kissed the girls and made them cry" | What kind of meter is this?

Answer 33

trochaic Tetrameter

Question 34

What happens if at the end of a line you have a sole stressed syllable?

Answer 34

You count it as another foot.

Question 35

Scan this line: | "Picture yourself in a boat on a river with"

Answer 35

Dactylic tetrameter

Question 36

What is a mnemonic device for an iamb?

Answer 36

The symbol that we draw for the first syllable, which is unstressed, is a "U", so it can be completed to form an eye shape "O"; thus, it reminds the first syllable "i" in the word iamb.

Question 37

"It is better to fight for the good than to rave at the ill" | What kind of meter is this?

Answer 37

anapestic Pentameter

Question 38

Scan this line: | One fish two fish red fish blue fish

Answer 38

Trochaic tetrameter

Question 39

Scan this line: | "Those lips that Love's own hand did make"

Answer 39

Iambic Tetrameter

Question 40

"My life closed twice before its close." Identify the meter.

Answer 40

Iambic Tetrameter

Question 41

How many syllables in the word "Dictionary"? Which one is stressed?

Answer 41

4 syllables, (DIC)-tion-ar-y

Question 42

What is the difference between Rhythm and Meter?

Answer 42

Rhythm refers to the overall tempo, or pace, at which the poem unfolds, while meter refers to the measured beat established by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.