Metre

Question 1

Accentual syllabic (main post-medieval system of prosody in English)

Answer 1

Qualitative prosody which disregards syllable length and is concerned with the formal patterns of un/stressed beats

Question 2

Analytical language (Modern English)

Answer 2

Distributes meaning among words and has a grammar dependent on prepositions and word order rather than inflected endings

Question 3

apostrophe

Answer 3

the mark ’, used with or without ‘s’ to indicate possession (the
genitive case), or the elision of a letter.

Question 4

beat

Answer 4

a word or syllable/s bearing stress (x) or unstress (u).

Question 5

cadence

Answer 5

a fall, in tone, pitch etc.

Question 6

canon

Answer 6

originally the ‘authorised’ books of the bible, as distinct from the apocrypha ; more generally, the body of work that is at any given time (and in a specified culture) taught and valorised.

Question 7

Catalectic lines

Answer 7

missing one or more beats

Question 8

dimeter

Answer 8

a line of two feet.

Question 9

distinguishing

Answer 9

of a foot, type-face, or fount, different from that normally
used.

Question 10

drop-cap(ital)

Answer 10

an initial letter in a larger fount that ‘drops’ below its own line

Question 11

duple metre

Answer 11

Feet with two beats (iambs, trochees)

Question 12

duple of a foot

Answer 12

having two feet, the rhythm they produce

Question 13

free verse

Answer 13

poetry in which metre varies

Question 14

Elision/to elide

Answer 14

Conflating or multiplying syllables
Omission, as of one or more letters from a word (usually indicated with an apostrophe)

Question 15

Falling rhythm

Answer 15

Lines of trochee and dactyls (xu) - voice pitched lower on unstressed beat

Question 16

feminine of an ending

Answer 16

with one or more unstresed hypermetrical beats

Question 17

foot

Answer 17

a prosodic unit of stressed and/or unstressed beats, the component of a line

Question 18

heptameter

Answer 18

7 ft line

Question 19

hexameter

Answer 19

6 ft line

Question 20

hyperbeats

Answer 20

those beats in a line which are surplus to the metre; stressed and unstressed hyperbeats are politically corrected masculine and feminine endings

Question 21

hypermetric

Answer 21

of a line in a given metre, with one or more hyperbeats

Question 22

iamb, iambic

Answer 22

foot of 2 beats ux

Question 23

ictus, ictūs (pl)

Answer 23

stressed beat of a foot

Question 24

inverted (of a foot)

Answer 24

reverse of that normally used in a given line

Question 25

Line

Answer 25

A single sequence of characters read from left to right

Question 26

masculine (of an ending)

Answer 26

one or more stressed hypermetrical beats

Question 27

metre

Answer 27

the rhythmic pattern of beats

Question 28

octameter

Answer 28

a line of 8 feet

Question 29

paeon

Answer 29

a foot of four beats, only one stressed ; called first (xuuu), second (uxuu), third (uuxu), and fourth (uuux) paeons according to the position of the stressed beat. | like a pantheon of gods - more

Question 30

pentameter

Answer 30

a line of five feet

Question 31

proceleusmatic

Answer 31

uuuu

Question 32

Prosody

Answer 32

The study and notation of metre

Question 33

quadruple

Answer 33

four beats

Question 34

Qualitative prosody

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Based on patterns of stress or accent

Question 35

Quantative prosody

Answer 35

Based on vowel length or quantity

Question 36

Rising rhythm

Answer 36

Iambic and anapæstic feet (ux) - unstressed to stressed beats means voice is pitched slightly higher

Question 37

scanning

Answer 37

the process of working out the scansion

Question 38

scansion

Answer 38

Individual metrical pattern of a particular line or poem

Question 39

sesqui-

Answer 39

(from Latin, ‘semi’, half, and ‘que’, and) may be prefixed to any linelength to indicate ‘and-a-half’ ; thus ‘trimeter’, a line of 3 feet, and ‘sequitrimeter’, of 3½ feet.

Question 40

Skeltonics

Answer 40

an accentual form devised for satirical and railing verse by John Skelton (?1460–1529).

Question 41

stressed

Answer 41

of beats, spoken emphatically, often with the voice pitched slightly higher than for an unstressed beat (1) ; of endings, with one or more stressed hypermetrical beats (7) ; of rhymes, with the stressed vowel in the last beat.

Question 42

Substitute feet 2x varieties

Answer 42

Distinguishing foot - spondees and pyrrhics used within iambic and trochaic lines Inverted foot - iamb in trochaic line or trochee in iambic line

Question 43

Substitute foot

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any foot used as a replacement for one of the regular feet in a given line

Question 44

triple (of a foot)

Answer 44

having 3 beats; the rhythm produced by such feet

Question 45

uu

Answer 45

Pyrrhic, pyrrhic

Question 46

uux

Answer 46

Anapœst, anapœstic ana-a-PEEST

Question 47

ux

Answer 47

Iamb, iambic i - AMB

Question 48

uxu

Answer 48

amphibrach- stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables

Question 49

uxux

Answer 49

diamb

Question 50

uxx

Answer 50

bacchius

Question 51

uxxu

Answer 51

antispast

Question 52

Why do rising triple metres tend to be comic?

Answer 52

tripping rhythm produced by consecutive unstressed beats

Question 53

wrenched accent

Answer 53

occurs when the requirements of metrical stress (and/or rhyme) prevail over the natural stress of a word or words

Question 54

xu

Answer 54

Trochee, trochaic TRO - chee

Question 55

xuu

Answer 55

dactyl, dactylic DAC-tyl-ic

Question 56

xuux

Answer 56

choriamb

Question 57

xux

Answer 57

amphimacer

Question 58

xuxu

Answer 58

a foot of four beats, the first and third stressed, the second and fourth unstressed

Question 59

xx

Answer 59

Spondee, spondaic SPON-DEE

Question 60

xxu

Answer 60

antibacchius

Question 61

xxx

Answer 61

molossus

Question 62

xxxx

Answer 62

dispondee

Question 63

tetrameter

Answer 63

line of four feet

Question 64

trimeter

Answer 64

line of three feet

Question 65

unstressed

Answer 65

of beats, spoken unemphatically, often more rapidly and with the voice pitched slightly lower than for a stressed beat (2) ; of endings, with one or more unstressed hypermetrical beats (7)

Question 66

wrenched accent

Answer 66

occurs when the requirements of metrical stress prevail over the natural stress of a word/words