adjective
noun
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another word for trochee
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a verse composed of trochees
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of trochaic
1580–90; < Latin trochaicus < Greek trochaïkós, equivalent to trocha ( îos ) trochee + -ikos -ic
Vocabulary lists containing trochaic
Reading: Literature - Poetry - High School
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Part 4 Literary Terms (Unit 5)
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Many other lines in this poem are also iambic or trochaic, yet the subject matter is troubled.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022
But what endured in public memory far longer than the crime was the headline, with its verbless audacity, arresting parallel adjectives and forceful trochaic slams.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2015
The literary result, “Mud Soup” — a cautionary tale that still pulsates with trochaic abandon — is quoted here at some length in belated contrition:
From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2014
The regular trochaic tetrameter of these 14 lines gives the figure of Lizzie an emblematic solidity.
From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2012
On the other hand, cretic and trochaic metres, from their affinity to the old Saturnian, came most easily to the early dramatists, and are largely employed by Plautus to express lively emotion.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
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