Metrical Math
How many feet would there be in one line of iambic monometer?
Fill in the blank on the poem title by Robert Frost.
Nothing ____ Can Stay
Gold
Name the type of rhyme used in the following lines:
Though the game ended in a tie
The coach looked sharp in his tie
Rich
What state was seen as a land of opportunity during the Great Depression?
California
Comprised of either two or three syllables, what is the smallest unit of poetry?
A foot
How many feet would there be in two lines of trochic trimeter?
6
What number is the name of a poem by e.e. cummings about how time interrupts our lives?
9
Name the type of rhyme used in the following lines:
Why will Kayle never bake
Mr. Rome an apple cake
Direct end rhyme
What term is given to workers, often farm workers, who travel from job to job as seasons and opportunities change?
Migrant workers
Comprised of at least one foot, what term in poetry is equivalent to a sentence in prose?
Line
How many feet would there be in four lines of anapestic tetrameter?
16
What essay by Henry David Thoreau was a criticism of the American government and the Mexican-American War?
"Civil Disobedience"
Name the type of rhyme used in the following lines:
When I am out of hope
I go to the grove
Slant
What term refers to actions like sit-ins, peaceful protests, and marches, which are performed for a cause?
Passive Resistance
In poetry, what term is given to a formal grouping of lines?
Stanza
How many feet would there be in three lines of dactylic dimeter?
6
Fill in the blank on the poem title by e.e. cummings:
______ Lived in a Pretty How Town
Anyone
Please never speak
When I am on break
Eye
What Transcendentalist term refers to the idea that people have a responsibility to stand up against an unfair law or government?
Civil Disobedience
What poet wrote "Acquainted with the Night" and "Stopping by Woods"?
Robert Frost
How many feet would there be in ten lines of pyrrhic octameter?
80
What poem by Robert Frost makes fun of the old saying "Good fences make good neighbors"?
I looked out a window
Only to see another window
Identical
What Transcendentalist idea is the opposite of collectivism?
Individualism
Which transcendentalist idea argues that you should not bruden others with your problems? It is also the title of the short essay we read by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Self-Reliance"