ASSIGNMENTS:

Edgar Allen Poe: "The Cask of Amontillado"
Kate Chopin: "The Story of an Hour"
Edith Wharton: "Roman Fever"
F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Babylon Revisited" [new assignment]
Ernest Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants" [new assignment]

POETICAL FEET:

iambic:  [unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable] example: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
trochaic:  [stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable] example: Once upon a midnight dreary
anapestic:  [two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable] example: Is it North? Is it South?
dactylic:  [stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables] example: Half a league, half a league, half a league

POETICAL METER:

1 foot: monometer
2 feet: dimeter
3 feet: trimeter
4 feet: tetrameter
5 feet: pentameter
6 feet: hexameter
7 feet: septameter
8 feet: octameter

blank verse is unrhymed iambic petameter