Thursday, August 11, 2016

1.List and define the types of poetic foot or meter.

  • Monometer-is a line of verse with just one metrical foot or dipody.
  • Dimeter-a line of verse consisting of two metrical feet or two dipodies.
  • Trimeter-a line of verse consisting of three dipodies or three metrical feet.
  • Tetrameter-a line of verse consisting either of four dipodies or four metrical feet.
  • Pentameter-a rhythm in poetry that has five stressed syllable in each line.
  • Hexameter-a line of verse consisting six metrical feet.
  • Heptameter-a line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet.
  • Octameter-a line of verse consisting of eight metrical feet. 


2.From the poem entitled: Justice what point of view is used?Explain your answer.

  • First persona or the author because he explain what he sees or what he fell that time 



3.Still from the same poem mark the first five lines according to types of poetic foot or meter.

These are the accouterments of her office-Pentameter
The blindfold symbolizing impartiality-Hexameter
A golden pair of scales measuring the validity-Heptameter
Of evidence given, both pro and can-Pentameter
The double-edged sword that pierce through-Tetrameter

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