Feet👣
The word “teacher” is an example of this type of metric foot
What is spondee?
The least common form of meter found in English poetry
What is Octameter?
In this poem, the snow falls from this type of tree
What is Dust of Snow and Hemlock Tree?
The poem says this will last forever
What is the soul/virtue?
The novel "My Antonia", written by Willa Cather, was written in this style, often referred to as a “story within a story”
What is a frame narrative?
An example of an Anapest is one of the following: Exist, Dinosaur, Incomplete
What is incomplete?
Shakespeare often writes in this meter, and is the most common form of pentameter
What is iambic pentameter?
The contrast between the speaker’s poor mood and the crow’s playful act is an example of this literary device
What is juxtaposition?
The poem “Virtue” primarily uses this basic metrical pattern
What is iambic tetrameter?
A foil to Sylvie and a strong female character in Ghost Wall
Who is Molly?
One of the following is not an example of a dactyl: Poetry, Juxtapose, Suddenly. Also, the outlier is an example of this metric foot.
What is juxtapose and anapest?
The meter of the following line: “The soft return of summer nights”
What is tetrameter?
The poem suggests that small moments in nature can do this to a person’s day or mood
What is “change”, “lift one’s spirits” or “make happier”
The unfortunate happenings to the beauty of the day, rose, and spring
What is fading, death, and not lasting forever?
These three characters in My Antonia represent different models of female success
Who are Antonia, Lena, and Tiny?
The following are examples of these three 2 syllable metric feet (in their respective order): Headache, Contain, Daughter.
What is spondee, iamb, trochee?
The subtype of hexameter of the following line: This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks.
What is Dactylic Hexameter?
This metric foot in Robert Frost’s poem “Dust of Snow” is used to mimic Frost’s shift in mood, and one example of this occurrence.
What is anapest and occurrence found?
The repetition of the word “Sweet” at the beginning of the stanzas is an example of this rhetorical device
What is anaphora?
Tessie Hutchinson’s unfortunate outcome in the short story “The Lottery”, can be called this rhetorical device
What is Irony?
The following phrase if stressed syllables were “DA” and unstressed syllables were “duh”: Forest, Canada, Mayday, Strawberry. Also, their respective metric feet.
What is DA-dum, DA-dum-dum, DA-DA, Da-dum-dum and Trochee, Dactyl, Spondee, Trochee?
The following phrase annotated, and it’s meter as well as the subtype of that meter: “Ardently driven the heroes were traveling over the sea.”
What is (annotation on white board), hexameter, and dactylic hexameter?
While “Dust of Snow” is mostly iambic tetrameter, the poem’s rhythm subtly shifts in the second line to creates a pause using this device and emphasize the speaker’s emotional shift.
What is caesura?
The contrast between the eternal soul and transient natural things like the day, rose, and spring illustrates this overarching theme.
What is the transience of outward beauty versus the permanence of virtue?
The wealthy and elderly woman in Great Expectations who wears a wedding dress and invites Pip over to play
Who is Miss Havisham?