HELP! true\false Poetry?
true or false:
1]Feminine and masculine endings are determined by the stressed or unstressed syllables at the end of a line of poetry.
2]The most common meter in English poetry is iambic pentameter.
3]Only one kind of rhyme is used in English poetry.
4]A series of repeated initial consonant sounds is called onomatopoeia.
5]Lyric poetry has a songlike quality.
6]The sonnet is a poetic form popular with many American poets.
7]Meter and rhyme schemes are determined by a method called alliteration.
8]The birches in Robert Frost's "Birches" symbolize nature.
9]Emily Dickinson's "Success" is an ironic and ambiguous poem about failures who know more about success than winners.
10]Eye rhyme refers to words that both sound alike and look alike.
Comments
I found the answers here from Google searches and my English Literature.
1. True. At the end of each line a stressed final syllable is said to be 'a masculine ending' and an unstressed final syllable is said to be 'a feminine ending'.
2. True.
3. False.
4. False. Onomatopoeia is the property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
5. True.
6. False. The sonnet is one of the poetic forms that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe.
7. False. Alliteration is a literary or rhetorical stylistic device that consists in repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in close succession.
8. I don't know. Check your text.
9. True, I think, but check your text.
10. False. Eye rhyme is a similarity in spelling between words that are pronounced differently.
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