📜 Prosody & Scansion
40 UGC NET-style MCQs across 4 sets · Metrical feet · Verse forms · Classical prosody · Applied scansion
40
Questions
4
Sets
+1/−1
Marking
Set 1
Metrical Feet · Blank Verse · Rhyme Schemes · Caesura
Iamb · Trochee · Dactyl · Anapest · Shakespearean sonnet · Spenserian stanza · Enjambment
Set 2
Verse Forms & Stanzaic Patterns
Ottava rima · Terza rima · Villanelle · Ballad metre · In Memoriam stanza · Feminine ending · Catalexis · Alexandrine · Rhyme royal · Burns stanza
Set 3
Classical Prosody & Advanced Concepts
Sprung rhythm · Old English verse · Spondee · Pyrrhic · Amphibrach · Accentual-syllabic metre · Quantitative metre · Masculine & feminine rhyme · Acephalous line · Dipodic verse
Set 4
Applied Scansion & Poetic Devices
Slant rhyme · Eye rhyme · Internal rhyme · Assonance · Consonance · Elision · Hovering accent · Anacrusis · Pindaric vs Horatian ode · Elegiac couplet · Leonine rhyme
📖 Study Guide
Read the complete Prosody & Scansion guide before attempting the MCQs — it covers all six metrical feet, line lengths, how to scan a line step by step, verse forms, rhyme schemes, and six UGC NET exam traps.
Read the Guide →💡 Exam Strategy
Prosody questions in UGC NET Paper II cluster around three traps: blank verse vs free verse, Shakespearean vs Petrarchan sonnet, and caesura vs enjambment. If you can draw a clear line between each of these three pairs, you will answer every prosody question correctly — even the ones you have never seen before.