Question

Drag each tile to the correct box. Match each excerpt to its poetic style.

Answer 1

Answer: The excerpt from "The Spirit of Poetry" matches with blank verse, the excerpt from "A Dream" matches with enjambment and the excerpt from "A Shadow" matches with iambic pentameter.

Explanation: The excerpt taken from "The Spirit of Poetry" by Longfellow is representative of blank verse because it is made up of verse without rhyme. Each of its lines contains ten syllables, of which five are stressed but do not rhyme. Moreover, "A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe matches with the poetic style known as enjambment because its phrases do not come to an end at the line break. In other words, there is no punctuation mark at the end of the lines that make up this excerpt. Finally, "A Shadow" by Longfellow is representative of the iambic pentameter because each of its line is made up of five feet. Moreover, each of these feet is composed of two syllables: an unstressed one followed by a stressed one.  

Answer 2

1. Iambic pentameter

2. Enjambent

3. Blank verse