AP English Literature:: Unit 5 - Poetry Figurative Language Meter

Which poetic device, metrical form, or figurative language concept is described below?

*A poetic meter consisting of five iambic feet per line (unstressed / stressed: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM), equaling 10 syllables.*

**A)** Iambic Pentameter
**B)** Trochaic Tetrameter
**C)** Anapestic Hexameter
**D)** Dactylic Dimeter

Which poetic device, metrical form, or figurative language concept is described below?

*An Iamb is unstressed followed by stressed (u /); A Trochee is stressed followed by unstressed (/ u).*

**A)** Iamb (u /) vs. Trochee (/ u)
**B)** Anapest vs. Dactyl
**C)** Spondee vs. Pyrrhic
**D)** Amphibrach vs. Tribrach

Which poetic device, metrical form, or figurative language concept is described below?

*An Anapest is two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed (u u /); A Dactyl is one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed (/ u u).*

**A)** Anapest (u u /) vs. Dactyl (/ u u)
**B)** Iamb vs. Trochee
**C)** Spondee vs. Pyrrhic
**D)** Hexameter vs. Heptameter

Which poetic device, metrical form, or figurative language concept is described below?

*A Spondee consists of two consecutive stressed syllables (/ /); A Pyrrhic consists of two consecutive unstressed syllables (u u).*

**A)** Spondee (/ /) vs. Pyrrhic (u u)
**B)** Iamb vs. Trochee
**C)** Anapest vs. Dactyl
**D)** Caesura vs. Enjambment

Which poetic device, metrical form, or figurative language concept is described below?

*Unrhymed poetry written in strict iambic pentameter, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth.*

**A)** Blank Verse
**B)** Free Verse
**C)** Heroic Couplet
**D)** Ballad Meter

Which poetic device, metrical form, or figurative language concept is described below?

*Poetry that does not conform to regular meter, rhythm, or fixed rhyme schemes, following the natural cadences of speech (e.g., Walt Whitman).*

**A)** Free Verse
**B)** Blank Verse
**C)** Heroic Couplets
**D)** Terza Rima

Which poetic device, metrical form, or figurative language concept is described below?

*A 14-line poem divided into an Octave (ABBAABBA) that presents a problem, followed by a Sestet (CDECDE or CDCDCD) resolving it after the volta (line 9).*

**A)** Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet
**B)** English (Shakespearean) Sonnet
**C)** Spenserian Sonnet
**D)** Villanelle

Which poetic device, metrical form, or figurative language concept is described below?

*A 14-line poem composed of three Quatrains and a concluding rhyming Couplet in iambic pentameter (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG), with a volta near line 9 or 13.*

**A)** English (Shakespearean) Sonnet
**B)** Petrarchan Sonnet
**C)** Spenserian Sonnet
**D)** Ode