Which statement about iambic meter is true? Each foot consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. Each
foot consists of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable. Each foot consists of three consecutive stressed syllables. Each foot consists of one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.
Each foot consists of one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.
Explanation:
An iambic meter refers to lines of poetry containing iambs. An iamb is a metrical foot (a group of two or three syllables) that has one UNSTRESSED syllable followed by a STRESSED syllable. For example, the word <em>remark</em> is an example of an iamb because <em>re</em> is an unstressed syllable and <em>mark</em> is a stressed syllable, that is to say, it is pronounced louder, with more emphasis.
Other examples of iamb are <em>belong, destroy, delay, portray, describe and attain.</em>
It is the biggest change that has occurred in the pronunciation of the English language in the fifteenth century. This change mainly concerned the pronunciation of long vowels and is the direct cause of the current discrepancy between the spelling and pronunciation of English.
