Terms for Discussing Prosody

Basic Terms

Naming Numbers of Feet

Kinds of Feet: Spondaic and Pyrrhic

Kinds of Feet: Iambic

Sounding out the Rhythm

Kinds of Feet: Trochaic

Sounding out the Rhythm

Kinds of feet: Dactylic

Sounding out the Rhythm

Kinds of Feet: Anapestic

Sounding out the Rhythm

Examples

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