rhythm and scansion vocabulary

Question 1

rhythm

Answer 1

the pattern of sound in a poem

Question 2

scansion

Answer 2

analysis of the kind and number of metrical feel in a poem

Question 3

stressed syllables

Answer 3

makes by a slash (- or /) above the syllable

Question 4

metre

Answer 4

the most structured for of rhythm: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

Question 5

iamb/iambic

Answer 5

a foot; unstressed-stressed

Question 6

trochee/trochaic

Answer 6

a foot; stressed-unstressed

Question 7

spondee/spondaic

Answer 7

a foot; stressed- stressed

Question 8

pyrrhic

Answer 8

a foot; unstressed-unstressed

Question 9

heroic couplet

Answer 9

rhymed pairs of iambic pentameter (aa bb cc)

Question 10

line-break

Answer 10

the end of a line of poetry

Question 11

endstop-endstopped

Answer 11

the line ends with a period or the feeling of a period

Question 12

enjamb-enjambed

Answer 12

when a syntactic unit (i.e. a phrase of clause) is carried over from one line to the next.

Question 13

typographical rhythms

Answer 13

the way white space in front of, in the middle of, or after the lines creates rhythmic pauses and variations in meaning.

Question 14

caesura

Answer 14

a pause, metrical or rhetorical, occurring in a line of poetry.