AP Lit Gatsby Ch 6-9

MISSING VOCAB

meter

the systematic regularity of a poem’s rhythm created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. Consists of type of foot and number of feet per line.

scansion

the practice of describing the rhythm of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, mark the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the feet

feet

rhythmical units in lines that recur in patterns of two or three syllables

iamb

a weak syllable followed by a strong syllable (rising)

trochee

a strong syllable followed by a weak syllable (falling)

anapest

two weak syllables followed by a strong syllable (rising)

dactyl

a strong syllable followed by two weak syllables (falling)

pyrrhic

two weak syllables

spondee

two strong syllables. Usually appears at the end of a line