Rhythm and Meter

What is the term that refers to any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound in a poem?

• rhythm

• meter

• rhyme

• accented syllable

The syllable in a word that carries the stress is considered

• accented

• unaccented

• rhetorical

• prose

When you add artificial stress to a syllable when speaking, this is called

• rhetorical stresses

• unaccented syllables

• accented syllables

• free verse

a line in poetry in which the end of the line corresponds with a natural speech pause is called

• end-stopped line

• run-on line

• enjambment

• free verse

A line in poetry in which the sense of the line moves on without pause

• end-stopped line

• run-on line

• enjambment

• free verse

Except for its line arrangement there is no necessary difference between the rhythms of prose and this type of poetry

• free verse

• blank verse

• rhymed verse

• rhetorical verse

Pauses that occur within lines, either grammatical, physical, or rhetorical are called

• caesuras

• meter

• rhythm

• spondee

A new type of poetry has emerged that depends entirely on ordinary prose rhythms, but also pays specific attention to connotation, imagery, figurative language, and evocative language

• prose poem

• blank verse

• sonnet

• an ode

The identifying characteristic of rhythmic language that we can tap our foot to

• meter

• rhythm

• foot

• stress

A basic unit of meter consisting normally of one accented syllable plus one or two unaccented syllables

• meter

• rhythm

• foot

• stress