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Which statements describe iambic pentameter as it is used in Shakespearean sonnets? Select two options.

Each line contains five metrical feet.
A sonnet contains five rhyme schemes.
There are five lines in every metrical foot.
In two-word pairs, the second word is stressed.
In a group of two syllables, the second is stressed.

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The two statements that describe iambic pentameter as it is used in Shakespearean sonnets are:

  1. Each line contains five metrical feet.
  2. In a group of two syllables, the second is stressed.

Iambic pentameter consists of five iambs (metrical feet), and each iamb is made up of two syllables where the second syllable is stressed.