Narrative Elements in “Pyramus and Thisbe”, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses Answers

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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

A
Five, because an iamb is a stressed syllable that is emphasized.
B
Five, because an iamb is an unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable.
C
Nine, because an iamb is the number of words found within a line of poetry.
D
Ten, because an iamb is a count of the individual syllables in a poetic line.
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Which best defines a couplet?

A
A couplet is a stanza of four poetic lines.
B
A couplet is two consecutive rhyming lines.
C
A couplet is three quatrains and two rhyming lines.
D
A couplet is a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Which syllables should Amber highlight? Select three options.

A
And
B
of-
C
-ten
D
is
E
his
F
gold
G
com-
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articles, such as “the” or “a”prepositions, such as “through” or “on”conjunctions, such as “and” or “but”nouns, such as “love” or “truth”

A
articles, such as “the” or “a”
B
prepositions, such as “through” or “on”
C
conjunctions, such as “and” or “but”
D
nouns, such as “love” or “truth”
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Markus is reading a Sonnet by William Shakespeare. Which will best help Markus understand the central ideas as he reads?

A
finding a single concept that links the lines together
B
marking the rhyme scheme with lowercase letters
C
counting all the stressed and unstressed syllables
D
skipping words that are unfamiliar or difficult to read

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