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Metre Flashcards

1
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Accentual syllabic (main post-medieval system of prosody in English)

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Qualitative prosody which disregards syllable length and is concerned with the formal patterns of un/stressed beats

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Analytical language (Modern English)

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Distributes meaning among words and has a grammar dependent on prepositions and word order rather than inflected endings

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apostrophe

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the mark ’, used with or without ‘s’ to indicate possession (the
genitive case), or the elision of a letter.

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4
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beat

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a word or syllable/s bearing stress (x) or unstress (u).

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5
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cadence

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a fall, in tone, pitch etc.

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canon

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originally the ‘authorised’ books of the bible, as distinct from the apocrypha ; more generally, the body of work that is at any given time (and in a specified culture) taught and valorised.

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7
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Catalectic lines

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missing one or more beats

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dimeter

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a line of two feet.

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9
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distinguishing

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of a foot, type-face, or fount, different from that normally
used.

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10
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drop-cap(ital)

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an initial letter in a larger fount that ‘drops’ below its own line

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11
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duple metre

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Feet with two beats (iambs, trochees)

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12
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duple of a foot

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having two feet, the rhythm they produce

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13
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free verse

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poetry in which metre varies

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14
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Elision/to elide

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Conflating or multiplying syllables
Omission, as of one or more letters from a word (usually indicated with an apostrophe)

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15
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Falling rhythm

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Lines of trochee and dactyls (xu) - voice pitched lower on unstressed beat

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16
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feminine of an ending

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with one or more unstresed hypermetrical beats

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17
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foot

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a prosodic unit of stressed and/or unstressed beats, the component of a line

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18
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heptameter

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7 ft line

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19
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hexameter

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6 ft line

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20
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hyperbeats

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those beats in a line which are surplus to the metre; stressed and unstressed hyperbeats are politically corrected masculine and feminine endings

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21
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hypermetric

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of a line in a given metre, with one or more hyperbeats

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22
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iamb, iambic

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foot of 2 beats ux

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ictus, ictūs (pl)

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stressed beat of a foot

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inverted (of a foot)

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reverse of that normally used in a given line

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Line

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A single sequence of characters read from left to right

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26
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masculine (of an ending)

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one or more stressed hypermetrical beats

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27
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metre

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the rhythmic pattern of beats

28
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octameter

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a line of 8 feet

29
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paeon

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a foot of four beats, only one stressed ; called first (xuuu), second (uxuu), third (uuxu), and fourth (uuux) paeons according to the position of the stressed beat.

like a pantheon of gods - more

30
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pentameter

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a line of five feet

31
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proceleusmatic

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uuuu

32
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Prosody

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The study and notation of metre

33
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quadruple

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four beats

34
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Qualitative prosody

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Based on patterns of stress or accent

35
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Quantative prosody

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Based on vowel length or quantity

36
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Rising rhythm

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Iambic and anapæstic feet (ux) - unstressed to stressed beats means voice is pitched slightly higher

37
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scanning

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the process of working out the scansion

38
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scansion

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Individual metrical pattern of a particular line or poem

39
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sesqui-

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(from Latin, ‘semi’, half, and ‘que’, and) may be prefixed to any linelength to indicate ‘and-a-half’ ; thus ‘trimeter’, a line of 3 feet, and ‘sequitrimeter’, of 3½ feet.

40
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Skeltonics

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an accentual form devised for satirical and railing verse by John Skelton (?1460–1529).

41
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stressed

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of beats, spoken emphatically, often with the voice pitched slightly higher than for an unstressed beat (1) ; of endings, with one or more stressed hypermetrical beats (7) ; of rhymes, with the stressed vowel in the last beat.

42
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Substitute feet 2x varieties

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Distinguishing foot - spondees and pyrrhics used within iambic and trochaic lines
Inverted foot - iamb in trochaic line or trochee in iambic line

43
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Substitute foot

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any foot used as a replacement for one of the regular feet in a given line

44
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triple (of a foot)

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having 3 beats; the rhythm produced by such feet

45
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uu

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Pyrrhic, pyrrhic

46
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uux

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Anapœst, anapœstic
ana-a-PEEST

47
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ux

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Iamb, iambic
i - AMB

48
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uxu

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amphibrach- stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables

49
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uxux

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diamb

50
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uxx

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bacchius

51
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uxxu

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antispast

52
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Why do rising triple metres tend to be comic?

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tripping rhythm produced by consecutive unstressed beats

53
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wrenched accent

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occurs when the requirements of metrical stress (and/or rhyme) prevail over the natural stress of a word or words

54
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xu

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Trochee, trochaic
TRO - chee

55
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xuu

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dactyl, dactylic
DAC-tyl-ic

56
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xuux

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choriamb

57
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xux

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amphimacer

58
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xuxu

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a foot of four beats, the first and third stressed, the second and fourth unstressed

59
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xx

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Spondee, spondaic
SPON-DEE

60
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xxu

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antibacchius

61
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xxx

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molossus

62
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xxxx

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dispondee

63
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tetrameter

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line of four feet

64
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trimeter

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line of three feet

65
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unstressed

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of beats, spoken unemphatically, often more rapidly and with the
voice pitched slightly lower than for a stressed beat (2) ; of endings, with one or
more unstressed hypermetrical beats (7)

66
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wrenched accent

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occurs when the requirements of metrical stress prevail over the natural stress of a word/words

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