Metrical Feet
Metrical Feet (cont'd)
Forms and Sounds
Sounds (cont'd)
More Sounds
100
unstressed unstressed stressed
What is Anapestic?
100
Unit of meter
What is a Foot?
100
similar likeness of sound existing between two words.
What is Rhyme?
100
the last two syllables of a word rhyme with another word: lawful and awful; lighting and fighting
What is Feminine Rhyme?
100
Pattern or sequence in which the rhyme occurs. a a b b a b a b c b a c
What is Rhyme Scheme?
200
stressed unstressed
What is Trochaic?
200
stressed stressed
What is Spondaic?
200
similarity occuring at the end of two of more lines of verse.
What is End Rhyme?
200
the last three syllables of a word or line rhyme: victorious and glorious; quivering and shivering, battering and shattering.
What is Triple Rhyme?
200
Repetition of one of more phrases of lines at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza. Takes the form of a chorus in a song.
What is Refrain?
300
unstressed unstressed and rare
What is Pyrrhic?
300
Name the meter and foot: Thus I Pass by And die, As one, Unknown And gone.
What is Iambic Monometer?
300
consists of line of iambic pentameter without end rhyme.
What is Blank Verse?
300
one syllable of a word rhymes with another word: bend and send, bright and light.
What is Masculine Rhyme?
300
the reiterating of a word or phrase within a poem.
What is Repetition?
400
unstressed stressed
What is Iambic
400
Name the meter and foot: Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,
What is Trochaic Octometer?
400
consists of lines that do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme.
What is Free Verse?
400
repetition of the initial letter or sound in two of more words.
What is Alliteration?
400
Name the device of sound: To tutor two tooters to toot?
What is Alliteration?
500
stressed unstressed unstressed
What is Dactylic
500
Name the meter and foot: Workers earn it, Spendthrifts burn it, Bankers lend it, Forgers fake it, * * * I could use it.
What is Trochiac Dimeter?
500
similarity occurring between two or more words in the same line of verse. "Once upon a midnight DREARY, while I pondered weak and WEARY,"
What is Internal Rhyme?
500
repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words: lake and fate; base and fate
What is Assonance?
500
Name the sound of device: But such a tide as moving seems asleep.
What is Consonance?
M
e
n
u