Which line of poetry is made of iambs?

a. roses are red
b. fantastic ways to make a fortune now
c. mackerel playfully swim in the ocean
d. little bitty people walking

B. Fantastic ways to make a fortune now

Explanation:

In poetry, an iamb is a metrical foot (a group of syllables) that has one UNSTRESSED syllable followed by a STRESSED syllable. There are six types of iamb and its classification is based on the number of iambs there is per lines: dimeter (two iambs per line), trimester (three iambs), tetrameter (four iambs), pentameter (five iambs) or hexameter (six iambs).

From all the choices, option B is the only line that is made of iambs because it has the syllable pattern of iambs: unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed... Check it in the following sentence where all stressed syllables are underlined, and all unstressed syllables are not underlined:

B. Fantastic ways to make a fortune now

Furthermore, this line is a pentameter because it consists of five iambs.

returning points to main account

explanation:

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)