latin iv scansion and meter

latin iv final

meter is used in poetry to ___

give lines a certain beat or rhythm

Shakespeare’s poems are usually written in what?

iambic pentameter

iambic pentameter

there are 5 iambs in each line of the poem

scansion

when you apply a long mark or a short mark above the vowels in every word of each line

long mark

一

short mark

🇺

a long beat is _____ as long as a short beat

twice

what are the patterns that long and short symbols fall into?

feet

what are the two types of feet?

dactyls and spondees

dactyls are scanned ___

一🇺🇺

spondees are scanned

一 一

what meter does Vergil use in the Aeneid?

dactylic hexameter

dactylic hexameter

each line of poetry has 6 feet composed of a variety of dactyls and spondees

what is the fifth foot called?

penultimate foot

in dactylic hexameter, the fifth foot is almost always scanned as what?

dactyl

in dactylic hexameter, the sixth foot is almost always scanned as what?

spondee

typical meter used for epic poetry

dactylic hexameter

dactylic hexameter will usually end with what?

a dactyl spondee

a line of dactylic hexameter scans with this pattern

|一🇺🇺|一🇺🇺|一🇺🇺|一🇺🇺|一🇺🇺|一 一|

one long may be in place of ___

two shorts

mark diphthongs with a long when…

none of the vowels in the diphthongs are long or marked by a dieresis (diêî or âëreus)

when preceding double consonants, mark vowels

long

the letter “i” at the beginning of a word or between two vowels usually counts as what consonant

j

if “q” is followed by a “u”, they are…

taken together as a single consonant

an elision occurs when

1) one word ends with a vowel and the following word begins with a vowel 2) one word ends with a vowel

what happens when two words elide?

the last syllable of the first word is dropped and the two words become one

if a vowel is followed by 2 consonants, and the second consonant is an “R” or “L”, the vowel may be ______

long or short

what letter usually does not count as a consonant

H

if you have two consonants and one is an “H”, what doesn’t make the vowel preceding it ____

long

o, i, u, as, es, os are _____

long by nature

am, em, um, e, are ____

short by nature