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vagabundo [1.1K]
1 year ago
6

Match the example to the term.

English
1 answer:
prohojiy [21]1 year ago
5 0

Answer:

1.    When I /do count / the clock / that tells / the time  (pentameter )

2.    merrily, merrily all the way home (dactylic )

3.    John stumbled ninety-six yards to a touchdown.  (Irony)

4.    Death watches over us all our lives.  (personification )

5.    These shoes wear like iron. (simile)

6.    abba, abba (rhyme scheme)

7.    most important element of poetry  (language )

8.    moon, June  (true rhyme )

9.    tune, boom (slant rhyme)

10.    Seek and ye shall find. (trochaic)

Explanation:

*Pentameter: is the way the lines of a poem are organized being the most common the iambic pentameter.

*Dactylic: is a poetic meter where the first is a long syllable followed by two short syllables

*Irony: is the contrast between what is expected to happen and what happens

*Personification: is a literary device that gives human qualities to something that is not human.

*Simile: it makes a comparison of two different things, using the words "as" and "like"

*Rhyme Scheme: is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line

*Language: a way of language using literary writing

*True Rhyme: Rhythm between words where the stressed syllable and the following consonants are identical

*Slant Rhyme: similar sound between rhymes but they don't rhyme

*Trochaic: when a line has trochees as a way of metric.

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