
Meters and Rhymes
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English
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5th Grade
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Hard
Joseph Anderson
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There are four feet that utilize iambs in the first verse, but then the meter breaks at the last syllable. The last syllable in the first line is simply unstressed. This is allowed and is a technique used in poetry to create a certain effect!
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Multiple Choice
What is the metric pattern of these verses, if the rhythm is trochaic?
Tell me / not in / mournful / numbers
By the / shores of / Gitche / Gumee,
By the / shining / Big-Sea- / Water
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha"
Iambic Pentatmeter
Trochaic tetrameter
Dactylic monometer
Spondaic dimeter
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Multiple Choice
What is the metric pattern of these verses, if the rhythm utilizes tetrameter, and the first syllable is stressed, followed by an unstressed syllable?
The Grizz / ly Bear / is huge / and wild;
He has / devoured / an in / fant child.
The in / fant child / is not / aware
It has / been eat / en by / the bear.
- A. E. Housman's "Infant Innocence"
Iambic Pentatmeter
Spondaic dimeter
Dactylic monometer
Trochaic tetrameter
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Multiple Choice
What is the metric pattern of these verses, if the rhythm is dactylic?
Cannon to/ right of them
Cannon to / left of them
Cannon in / front of them
Volley'd and/ thunder'd
- Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade "
Iambic Pentatmeter
Spondaic dimeter
Dactylic dimeter
Trochaic tetrameter
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Multiple Choice
What is the metric pattern of these verses, if the rhythm is anapestic?
His eyes are /as green as/a fresh pick/led toad.
- Harry's Valentine from Harry Potter
Anapestic trimeter
Spondaic dimeter
Dactylic dimeter
Trochaic tetrameter
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Open Ended
Provide a sentence that shows alliteration.
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Open Ended
Provide a sentence that shows consonance.
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Open Ended
Provide a sentence that shows assonance.
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Open Ended
Provide a sentence that shows rhyming.
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Open Ended
Provide an example of onomatopoeia.
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Open Ended
If a poetry verse is pleasant to listen to, how do we describe it?
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Open Ended
If a poetry verse is not pleasant to listen to, how do we describe it?

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