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AP Poetry Terms 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amphibrach | X/X foot |
| Anapest | XX/ foot |
| Caesura | A deliberate pause within a line of poetry |
| Couplet | Two rhyming lines of poetry, one following another |
| Dactyl | /XX foot |
| Dimeter | Two-foot line of poetry |
| Foot | Basic unit of verse in syllables |
| Heptameter | Seven-foot line of poetry |
| Hexameter | Six-foot line of poetry |
| Iamb | X/ foot |
| Monometer | One-foot line of poetry |
| Nonameter | Nine-foot line of poetry |
| Octameter | Eight-foot line of poetry |
| Pentameter | Five-foot line of poetry |
| Rhythm | The pattern or flow of sound created in a line of poetry |
| Scansion | Process of measuring lines of poetry, with syllables in particular |
| Tetrameter | Four-foot line of poetry |
| Trimeter | Three-foot line of poetry |
| Trochee | /X foot |