Metrical Feet (Coleridge poem) Quizzes

Metrical Feet (Coleridge poem) Quiz

1 What is a Spondee?
A metrical foot composed of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

A metrical foot composed of two stressed syllables.

A metrical foot composed of two unstressed syllables.

A metrical foot composed of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
2 What is an example of a Trochee?
Store

Garden

Strong Foot

Away
3 What is an Anapest?
A trisyllabic foot composed of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable and then another unstressed syllable.

A trisyllabic metrical foot composed of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.

A trisyllabic foot composed of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable and then another stressed syllable.

A trisyllabic foot composed of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
4 What is an example of an Iamb?
Garden

Store

Strong Foot

Away
5 The line "first and last" is an example of which metrical foot?
Dactyl

Anapest

Amphimacer

Ampyhbrach
6 What is a Dactyl?
A metrical foot composed of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

A trisyllabic foot composed of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

A trisyllabic metrical foot composed of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.

A metrical foot composed of two stressed syllables.
7 "Skiddaw" is what?
A famous Scottish castle

A mountaintop from Greek mythology

An archaic term for "Heaven"

A mountain in England's Lake district
8 To be a poet crowned with fame, Derwent must be all of the following EXCEPT what?
Tender hearted

Delight in the things of earth, water, and skies

Frugal and shrewd

Innocent, steady and wise
9 The marks atop the words in the first half of the poem show what?
The speed at which the poem should be read.

Stressed and unstressed syllables.

A hidden message in a coded language.

Letters that should be sung.
10 Why does Coleridge call a Spondee "strong foot"?
Spondees are composed of three stressed syllables, so they make a heavy-footed sound.

The word "Spondee" derives from an old English word meaning "heavy of foot"

Spondees are composed of two stressed syllables, so they have a heavy footed rhythm.

The word "Spondee" derives from a special military march, in which soldiers walk heavily.
11 The word "Father" in the poem is used to specifically refer to who or what?
The poet and his father.

The God of Poetry.

The Holy Trinity.

The poet and God.
12 "Metrical Feet" was originally included in what?
Coleridge's first volume of poetry.

A letter.

In Coleridge's literary publication, "The Friend"

A school book.
13 The poem is poetically composed with which of the following?
Iambic pentameter

Haiku

Rhyming couplets

Blank verse
14 What do the words "long" and "short" refer to in the poem?
The height of Derwent and his brother.

Vowel lengths.

The length of a line of poetry.

Stressed and unstressed syllables.
15 The poem conveys all the following EXCEPT what?
Qualities needed to be a good poet.

The poet's affection for his son.

The poet's hopes for himself.

The differences between various metrical feet.
16 The poem's mood is all of the following EXCEPT?
Humorous

Fun

Angry

Affectionate
17 When Coleridge says Derwent should "delight in the things of earth, water and skies" what does he mean?
He should work the land for profit.

He should enjoy the natural world.

He should hunt on land, sea and air.

He should only consume natural foods.
18 Why is Skiddaw significant in the poem?
It was a real mountain that Coleridge and his son both knew in a part of England with literary significance.

It was a fabled mountain from an Arabic poem.

It is the highest point in the Europe.

It was where Coleridge taught his son poetry.
19 The poem alludes to what aspects of Coleridge's philosophy?
His philosophy of poetry as a great money-making scheme.

His philosophy of writing for fun.

His philosophy of composition as a dialectic.

His philosophy of only writing short poems.
20 The poem is written for whose benefit?
William Wordsworth, Coleridge's friend.

School children, in general.

Derwent, Coleridge's son.

Sarah, Coleridge's wife.
21 All of the following are trisyllabic metrical feet EXCEPT what?
Amphimacer

Anapest

Dactyl

Spondee
22 Which is NOT a theme found in the poem?
Fatherly Love

Poetry

Education

Politics
23 Which metrical foot throngs "with a leap and a bound"?
Iambs

Dactyls

Anapests

Amphimacers
24 Which poetic group were both Coleridge and Skiddaw associated with?
The Elizabethans

The Modernists

Fluxus

The Lake Poets
25 Which well-known metrical foot marches from "short to long"?
Trochees

Iambs

Spondees

Amphibrachs

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