Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter means_______.
A: the line has 6 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
B: the line has 6 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable
C: the line has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
D: the line has 5 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable
A: the line has 6 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
B: the line has 6 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable
C: the line has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
D: the line has 5 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable
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- 中国大学MOOC: There are 10 syllables in a line and they follow a regular pattern: an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. This line is called a(an) _______ line.
- The meter "Iamb" is made of a(n) _____ syllable and a(n) _______ syllable. A: unstressed; unstressed B: stressed; unstressed C: unstressed; stressed D: stressed; stressed
- Iamb (抑扬格) is a simple pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by _______.
- The syllable is the stressed syllable in the word “police”.
- 中国大学MOOC: The basic unit of poetic meter in English is a ______ which normally consists of one stressed syllable plus one or two unstressed syllables.