LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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a line of poem that has five feet
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a line of poem that has no rhyme scheme
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a line of poem about pentagrams
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None of the above are correct
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Detailed explanation-1: -…the most common English metre, iambic pentameter, is a line of ten syllables or five iambic feet. Each iambic foot is composed of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
Detailed explanation-2: -’Penta’ means five, so pentameter simply means five meters. A line of poetry written in iambic pentameter has five feet = five sets of stressed syllables and unstressed syllables.
Detailed explanation-3: -Iambic pentameter is the name given to a line of verse that consists of five iambs (an iamb being one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed, such as “before"). It has been a fundamental building block of poetry in English, used in many poems by many poets from the English Renaissance to the present day.
Detailed explanation-4: -pentameter, in poetry, a line of verse containing five metrical feet.
Detailed explanation-5: -Iambic pentameter is a very common way that lines of poetry are structured. Each line has five sets of two beats, the first is unstressed and the second is stressed. E.g. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” where the bold beats are stressed, and the underlined beats are unstressed.