ENG 207 Prosody Quiz
1. Print your first and last names. Mark the stressed and unstressed syllables to show which take the
stronger and which the weaker accents. If either name is also a named poetic foot, name that foot :
2. What two terms can describe the specific rhyme type in this line:
The sky. A plane in the sky.
3. Jim writes a poem in regular iambic tetrameter. After how many syllables will he always break the line
to start a new line?
4. How many feet are in an anapestic pentameter line?
5. What is the strongest punctuation stop?
6. How many lines are in any quatrain?
7. Which of these two terms is used to describe a poetic line that flows directly into the next line
without any pause? 1) Syntax 2) Enjambment
8. Which one of these names a 3-syllable foot: 1) spondee 2) anapest 3) iamb?
9. I can make these two words—purple procured--- rhyme in a poem if I use what kind of rhyme?
10. Choose any single word that is a dactyl and write it here: