Question

Match each type of meter with its description

Answer 1

Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs.

Match each type of meter with its description.

Tiles iambic unstressed/stressed arrangement trochaic stressed/unstressed/ unstressed arrangement anapestic stressed/unstressed arrangement dactylic unstressed/unstressed/ stressed arrangement

Answer:

• Iambic: unstressed/stressed arrangement:

• Trochaic: stressed/unstressed arrangement - trochee is quite the opposite of iamb

• Anapestic: unstressed/unstressed/stressed arrangement  

• Dactylic: stressed/unstressed/unstressed arrangement

Explanation:

Iamb: This is a literary device usually used in poems which is a foot that contains unaccented and short syllables which are followed by long and accented syllables.  

Trochaic: Trochee is quite the opposite of iamb  because it contains a stressed syllable that is followed by an unstressed one.

Anapest: This is a metric foot that contains two short syllables followed by a long syllable.

Dactyl: This is a long syllable that is followed by two short syllables/