Select the correct answer. Read the following excerpt from “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Lord Alfred Tennyson. Based on t
his example, what is a dactylic foot? Half a League A. a foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable B. a foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable C. a foot with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable D. a foot with a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
A dactyl is a three-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which a stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables. ... The opposite of a dactyl is an anapest, a metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
