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/
