(Parti )scansion And Meter Test AP
43 Questions
| Attempts: 335
The structural poetry test
Questions and Answers
- 1.Scan the phrases and poem excerpts below, typing CAPS for stressed syllables only. Also, separate the feet with the symbol |, found above the enter or return key on your keyboard. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
- 2.Identify the stressed and unstressed syllables with caps and non caps respectively: Elaine
- A.
Elaine
- B.
ELAINE
- 3.Identify the stressed and unstressed syllables with caps and non caps respectively: Ashley
- A.
Ashley
- B.
AshLEY
- 4.Identify the rhythm: Elaine
- A.
Dactylic
- B.
Anapestic
- C.
Trochaic
- D.
Iambic
- 5.Identify the rhythm: Ashley
- A.
Dactylic
- B.
Anapestic
- C.
Trochaic
- D.
Iambic
- 6.Identify the rhythm: I WANT to GO to ItaLY and EAT a PIzza PIE.
- A.
Dactylic
- B.
Anapestic
- C.
Trochaic
- D.
Iambic
- 7.Scan the phrases and poem excerpts below, typing CAPS for stressed syllables only. Also, separate the feet with the symbol |, found above the enter or return key on your keyboard. Double double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
- 8.Identify the rhythm and meter of the following excerpt: Double double toil and trouble Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
- A.
Iambic pentameter
- B.
Trochaic pentameter
- C.
Trochaic tetrameter
- D.
Iambic tetrameter
- 9.Scan the phrases and poem excerpts below, typing CAPS for stressed syllables only. Also, separate the feet with the symbol |, found above the enter or return key on your keyboard. For the moon never beams Without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
- 10.Identify the rhythm and meter of the following excerpt: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
- 11.Scan the phrases and poem excerpts below, typing CAPS for stressed syllables only. Also, separate the feet with the symbol |, found above the enter or return key on your keyboard. Tell me not in mournful numbers
- 12.Identify the rhythm and meter of the following excerpt: Tell me not in mournful numbers
- 13.Scan the phrases and poem excerpts below, typing CAPS for stressed syllables only. Also, separate the feet with the symbol |, found above the enter or return key on your keyboard. And the sound of a voice that is still
- 14.Identify the rhythm and meter of the following excerpt: And the sound of a voice that is still
- 15.Identify the rhythm and meter of the following excerpt: This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pine and the hemlocks
- 16.Scan the phrases and poem excerpts below, typing CAPS for stressed syllables only. Also, separate the feet with the symbol |, found above the enter or return key on your keyboard. This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pine and the hemlocks
- 17.Identify the rhythm and meter of the following excerpt: For the moon never beams Without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
- A.
Anapestic dimeter
- B.
Dactylic dimeter
- C.
Anapestic trimeter
- D.
Dactylic trimeter
- 18.Scan the phrases and poem excerpts below, typing CAPS for stressed syllables only. Also, separate the feet with the symbol |, found above the enter or return key on your keyboard. Picture yourself in a boat on a river with Tangerine tree-ees and marmalade ski-i-ies.
- 19.Identify the rhythm and meter of the following excerpt: Picture yourself in a boat on a river with Tangerine tree-ees and marmalade ski-i-ies.
- A.
Anapestic trimeter
- B.
Dactylic trimeter
- C.
Anapestic tetrameter
- D.
Dactylic tetrameter
- 20.A line that consists of two stressed syllables together.
- A.
Iamb
- B.
Spondee
- C.
Dactyl
- 21.A line that consists of one stressed then followed by unstressed syllable.
- A.
Iamb
- B.
Spondee
- C.
Dactyl
- 22.Number Greek terminology that has five meter.
- A.
Tetrameter
- B.
Pentameter
- C.
Heptameter
- 23.Number Greek terminology that has three meter.
- A.
Heptameter
- B.
Trimeter
- C.
Detrameter
- 24.Has five metrical feet, one stress then followed by two unstressed syllables.
- A.
Trochaic pentameter
- B.
Phyrric heptameter
- C.
Iambic pentameter
- 25.Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme.
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