AUTHOR'S STYLE AUTHOR'S CHOICES: POETIC STRUCTURE
Meter in a poem is the pattern in which the beats—stressed and unstressed
syllables—are arranged. A foot is the basic unit of meter, and each metrical foot
typically has one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables. For
example, a foot with one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable is
called an iamb. Today and protect are iambs. A foot that begins with a stressed
syllable followed by an unstressed one is called a trochee. Notebook and pencil
are trochees. The meter of a poem is named by how many feet there are in a line
plus how the beats are arranged in each foot. For example, a line with five iambic
feet is called iambic pentameter (pent means “five").
Enjambment is continuing a sentence, clause, or phrase from one line to the next
without end-of-line punctuation, so the complete thought continues from one line
to the next. Poets use enjambment to maintain the meter or to show relationships
between ideas. To identify enjambment, watch for a lack of punctuation at the end
of a line.
DIRECTIONS: Read the first and last stanzas from a poem about writing a poem.
Then answer the questions.
I have to write a sonnet for math class,
With fourteen lines and seven rhyming pairs.
Don't want to, but I must so I can pass.
What poet writes of circles, lines, and squares?
My sonnet's done, and now I understand
How math and poems Ian go hand-in-hand.
1. What is the meter of this poem? How do you know?
2. Which words in these stanzas end with a stressed syllable preceded by an
unstressed one?
3. Where is the enjambment in these stanzas? How do you know?

{asap} select the correct text in the passage. which line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling, adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country, by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich. i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. lines highlighted: - there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling, - they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather - i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country, - i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing.

Which themes are portrayed through juliet’s monologue?

3. how could the following sentence be rewritten as an exclamatory sentence? how dangerous was the saber-toothed tiger? a. tell someone how dangerous the saber-toothed tiger was. b. the saber-toothed tiger was dangerous. c. the saber-toothed tiger was dangerous! d. no change is necessary. c. the saber-toothed tiger was dangerous!