Poetry: meter

Question 1

Accent

Answer 1

The emphasis or stress placed on a beat

Question 2

Accentual-syllabic

Answer 2

The kind of prosody principally used in English

Question 3

Anapæst

Answer 3

UUX foot of 3 beats

Question 4

Beat

Answer 4

A word or syllable bearing one stress (x)or unstress (u)

Question 5

Cadence

Answer 5

A fall in pitch or tone

Question 6

Dimeter

Answer 6

A line of two feet

Question 7

Distinguishing

Answer 7

Said of a foot, typeface, or fount, different from that normally used

Question 8

Duple

Answer 8

Of a foot, having two beats; the rhythm produced by such feet.

Question 9

Elision

Answer 9

Omission, as of one or more letters from a word usually indicated by an apostrophe

Question 10

Falling rhythm

Answer 10

That produced by feet with with unstressed beats following stressed beats

Question 11

Feminine

Answer 11

Of an ending, with one or more unstressed hypermetrical beats

Question 12

Foot

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Free verse

Answer 13

Poetry in which the meter varies

Question 14

Heptameter

Answer 14

Line of seven feet

Question 15

Hexameter

Answer 15

A line of six feet

Question 16

Hyperbeats

Answer 16

Those beats in a line which are surplus to the meter; stressed & unstressed hyperbeats are known also as masculine & feminine

Question 17

Hypermetric

Answer 17

Of a line in a given meter, with one or more hyper beats

Question 18

Iamb

Answer 18

A foot of two beats an u followed by an X

Question 19

Ictus

Answer 19

The stressed beat of a foot

Question 20

Inverted

Answer 20

Of a foot, the reverse of that normally used In a given line

Question 21

Line

Answer 21

A single sequence of characters read from left to right

Question 22

Line break

Answer 22

The turn of one line into the next notated as /

Question 23

Masculine

Answer 23

Of an ending with one ore more stressed hyper metrical beats

Question 24

Metre

Answer 24

The rhythmic pattern of beats

Question 25

Neoclassical

Answer 25

Derived from Greek or Latin writing

Question 26

Pentameter

Answer 26

A line of five feet

Question 27

Prosody

Answer 27

The study and notation of meter

Question 28

Pyrrhic

Answer 28

A foot of two unstressed beats

Question 29

Rising rhythm

Answer 29

That produced by feet with stress beats following unstressed beats

Question 30

Scansion

Answer 30

The individual metrical pattern of a particular line or poem

Question 31

Spondee

Answer 31

A foot of two stressed beats xx

Question 32

Stressed

Answer 32

Of a beat, spoken emphatically often with the voice pitched slightly higher than for an unstressed beat

Question 33

Substitute foot

Answer 33

Any foot used as a replacement for one of the regular feet in a given line; includes inverted and distinguishing feet

Question 34

Tetrameter

Answer 34

A line of four feet

Question 35

Trimeter

Answer 35

A line of three feet

Question 36

Triple

Answer 36

Of a foot; having three beats;

Question 37

Trochee

Answer 37

A foot of two beats, a stressed followed by an unstressed xu

Question 38

U

Answer 38

Notation for an unstressed beat

Question 39

Unstressed

Answer 39

Of a beat, spoken unemphatically, often more rapidly and with the voice pitched slightly lower than a stressed beat

Question 40

Wrenched accent

Answer 40

Occurs when the requirements of metrical stress or rhyme prevail over natural stress of a word or words.

Question 41

X

Answer 41

Notation for a stressed beat