CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature questions with correct answers

Correct Answer-meter What category of poetry is based on unrhymed lines and a definite meter? Correct Answer-blank verse How are blank verse and free verse different? Correct Answer-blank verse has a defined meter, while free verse doesn't How many total syllables do you find in a line of iambic pentameter? Correct Answer-10 The pattern of five sets of unstressed/stressed iambs is called... Correct Answer-iambic pentameter Who made free verse popular among American poets? Correct Answer-Walt Whitman What category of poetry is based on unrhymed lines and lack of a regular meter? Correct Answer-free verse Lisa, a high school student, writes a set of lines with no set rhyme scheme and a defined meter. Is this a poem? Why or why not? Correct Answer-Yes, its a blank verse poem, because it has no set rhyme scheme but a defined meter.