中国大学MOOC: There are 10 syllables in a line and they follow a regular pattern: an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. This line is called a(an) _______ line.
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- Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter means_______. A: the line has 6 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable B: the line has 6 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable C: the line has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable D: the line has 5 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable
- ________ refers to the changing pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of a poem. A: meter B: rhythm C: foot D: sound
- A rhythm group contains more than one stressed syllable, together with unstressed syllables clustering about it or none.
- Why didn’t Alfred Tennyson put any unstressed syllable in the line “Break, break, break”?
- Iamb (抑扬格) is a simple pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by _______.