Scansion

"_____________" is a sound device, the rhythm and measurement of beats of a poem.

• Meter

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Metric

_____________ is created through the use of stressed and unstressed syllables.

• Rhyme scheme

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Repetition

An '________' is a metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

• trochee

• iamb

consists of measuring the stresses in a line to determine its metrical pattern.

• scansion

• feet

• stresses

• meter

What would the scansion of the following line look like?
"What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze"

• U/U/U/U/U/

• /U/U/U/U/U

• UU/UU/UU/U

• /UU/UU/UU/

What foot has two stressed syllables?

• pyrrhic

• iambic

• anapest

• spondee

What is a line that ends with an extra unstressed syllable called?

• masculine ending

• feminine ending

• blank verse

• rising meter

What is the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables?

• meter

• foot

• prosody

• rhythm

The _____ is the metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured.

• iamb

• foot

• line

• couplet

What would the scansion of an iambic foot look like?

• U /

• / U

• / /

• U U /