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 unstressed syllables.

A metrical foot composed of two stressed syllables.

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

Store

Garden

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

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

Amphimacer

Anapest

Ampyhbrach
6 What is a Dactyl?
A metrical foot composed of two stressed syllables.

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

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

A metrical foot composed of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
7 "Skiddaw" is what?
A mountain in England's Lake district

An archaic term for "Heaven"

A famous Scottish castle

A mountaintop from Greek mythology
8 To be a poet crowned with fame, Derwent must be all of the following EXCEPT what?
Frugal and shrewd

Delight in the things of earth, water, and skies

Innocent, steady and wise

Tender hearted
9 The marks atop the words in the first half of the poem show what?
Letters that should be sung.

The speed at which the poem should be read.

A hidden message in a coded language.

Stressed and unstressed syllables.
10 Why does Coleridge call a Spondee "strong foot"?
The word "Spondee" derives from a special military march, in which soldiers walk heavily.

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.

Spondees are composed of three stressed syllables, so they make a heavy-footed sound.
11 The word "Father" in the poem is used to specifically refer to who or what?
The God of Poetry.

The poet and his father.

The poet and God.

The Holy Trinity.
12 "Metrical Feet" was originally included in what?
A school book.

Coleridge's first volume of poetry.

A letter.

In Coleridge's literary publication, "The Friend"
13 The poem is poetically composed with which of the following?
Haiku

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter

Rhyming couplets
14 What do the words "long" and "short" refer to in the poem?
The length of a line of poetry.

The height of Derwent and his brother.

Vowel lengths.

Stressed and unstressed syllables.
15 The poem conveys all the following EXCEPT what?
The poet's affection for his son.

The differences between various metrical feet.

The poet's hopes for himself.

Qualities needed to be a good poet.
16 The poem's mood is all of the following EXCEPT?
Affectionate

Angry

Fun

Humorous
17 When Coleridge says Derwent should "delight in the things of earth, water and skies" what does he mean?
He should hunt on land, sea and air.

He should only consume natural foods.

He should work the land for profit.

He should enjoy the natural world.
18 Why is Skiddaw significant in the poem?
It is the highest point in the Europe.

It was a fabled mountain from an Arabic poem.

It was a real mountain that Coleridge and his son both knew in a part of England with literary significance.

It was where Coleridge taught his son poetry.
19 The poem alludes to what aspects of Coleridge's philosophy?
His philosophy of writing for fun.

His philosophy of poetry as a great money-making scheme.

His philosophy of only writing short poems.

His philosophy of composition as a dialectic.
20 The poem is written for whose benefit?
William Wordsworth, Coleridge's friend.

Sarah, Coleridge's wife.

School children, in general.

Derwent, Coleridge's son.
21 All of the following are trisyllabic metrical feet EXCEPT what?
Spondee

Dactyl

Amphimacer

Anapest
22 Which is NOT a theme found in the poem?
Education

Politics

Fatherly Love

Poetry
23 Which metrical foot throngs "with a leap and a bound"?
Anapests

Dactyls

Iambs

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

The Elizabethans

The Lake Poets

The Modernists
25 Which well-known metrical foot marches from "short to long"?
Iambs

Trochees

Spondees

Amphibrachs

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