Vocab

Question 0

Foot

Answer 0

Building blocks of a meter

Question 1

Meter

Answer 1

Specific rhythmic pattern

Question 2

Quantity

Answer 2

The length of a syllable

Question 3

Dactyl

Answer 3

Long short short

Quickens pace

Question 4

Spondee

Answer 4

Long long

Slows down line like fat people at mcdonalds

Question 5

Caesura

Answer 5

Breaks between words in a foot to emphasize a word immediately

Question 6

Semiternaria

Answer 6

Trihemimeral

After the third half foot or second foot

Question 7

Semiquinaria

Answer 7

Penthimimeral
After the fifth half foot
The third foot

Question 8

Semiseptenaria

Answer 8

Hepthemimeral
After seventh half foot
Fourth foot

Question 9

Scansion

Answer 9

Marking feet in a meter

Question 10

Dactylic hexameter

Answer 10

6 feet of dactyls and spondees

Question 11

Last syllable is called _____.

Answer 11

Anceps

On rare occasion spondaic line

Question 12

Dipthong

Answer 12

Two vowels pronounced as one

Question 13

Hiatis

Answer 13

Elision should occur but doesn’t

Question 14

Substitution

Answer 14

Second long syllable replaced with two short syllables

Question 15

Elisions

Answer 15

One words ends in a vowel and another begins in a vowel last syllable if first word dropped
Aphrasis when e in es or est drops
Ecthlipsis when a word ends in “um” and followed by a word with a vowel the words elide

Question 16

Diastole

Answer 16

Lengthening or ordinarily short vowel

Question 17

Systole

Answer 17

Shortening of ordinarily long vowel

Question 18

Tmesis

Answer 18

Separation of compound words into it’s parts for metaphorical convenience

Question 19

Ovids style

Answer 19

Less elisions
Prefers dactyls
Uses caesura