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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT WGU2011 POETIC METER
EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: The wind was whipping my hair around my neck.
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Alliteration is the repetition of a beginning sound.Question 2: A typical Emily Dickinson poem goes like this: I felt a cleaving in my mind As if my brain had split; I tried to match it, seam by seam, But could not make them fit. The thought behind I strove to join....
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common meter Common meter is also used in "Amazing Grace" and "The Yellow Rose of Texas," which is why you can sing most Dickinson poems to either tune.Question 3: ANAPESTIC (x x /) 3 syllable feet unstressed/unstressed/STRESSED = in-ter-FERE, on the ROAD, in-ter-UPT,cont-ra-DICT
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And the SOUND of a VOICE that is STILL
Question 4: IAMBIC 2 syllable feet - unstressed/STRESSED = beCOME,rePROSE, beLIEF, comPLETE
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That TIME of YEAR thou MAYST in ME beHOLD Question 5: If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
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Tetrameter Question 6: Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory and of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour, and the mask Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth The smokeless altars of the mountain snows Flamed above crimson clouds,& at the birth.
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Terza rima = rhyme scheme similar to this: aba bcb cdc ded,
Question 7: MONOMETER
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1 FOOT
Question 8: ANAPESTIC TRIMETER (3 anapests, 9 syllables)
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And the SOUND|of a VOICE|that is STILL Question 9: IAMBIC PENTAMETER (5 iambs, 10 syllables) most common in English verse.
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That TIME|of YEAR|Thou MAYST|in ME|beHOLD Question 10: Step back, step back step back you say. No pain, no pain no pain I pray
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Diameter in one stanza
Question 11: TETRAMETER
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4 FEET
Question 12: TROCHAIC TETRAMETER (4 trochess, 8 syllables)
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TELL me|NOT in|MOURNful|NUMbers
Question 13: PENTAMETER
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5 FEET
Question 14: If a poem had 4 feet per line and the foot was iambic (unstressed/STRESSED).what type of poem would it be?
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Iambic tetrameter Question 15: SPONDAIC (/ /) 2 syllable feet STRESSED/STRESSED = LONG DAY, HEART BURN,
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BREAK, BREAK, BREAK/ On thy COLD GRAY STONES, O SEA!
Question 16: OCTOMETER
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8 FEET
Question 17: Since I've stopped completing dinner, My waist has slowly gotten thinner. I think this diet is a winner!
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tercet
Question 18: 3 feet per line, trochaic (STRESSED/unstressed)
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Trochaic tetrameter Question 19: If a poem had 1 foot per line and the foot was iambic (unstressed/STRESSED), what type of a poem would it be?
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Iambic dimeter
Question 20: It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
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Blank Verse in Iambic Pentameter Question 21: DACTYLIC HEXAMETER (6 dactlys, 17 syllables; a trochee replaces the last dactyl)
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THIS is the|FORest pri|MEval, the|MURmuring|PINE and the|HEMlocks Question 22: Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand; Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie.
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Trimeter Question 23: Each line of a poem contains a certain number of ________ of iambs, trochees, spondees, dactyls or anapests.
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Feet Question 24: If a poem had 3 feet per line, and the foot was iambiic (unstressed/STRESSED), what type of poem would it be?
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Iambic trimeter
Question 25: TROCHAIC MONOMETER (2 syllables, unstress/stressed one foot line)
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Adam Had'em
Question 26: How many lines? Haiku Limericks Triolets Sonnets
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Haiku have 3 lines; limericks have 5; triolets have 8; sonnets have 14.
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