Question

Which line is decasyllabic? A. Meet me by the dock down south. B. I am sometimes compared to popular actresses. C. I sincerely hope you have a bigger fish than that. D. To whom it may concern: Hello and bye.

Answer 1

The correct answer is D. To whom it may concern: Hello and bye.

Step-by-step explanation:

In language, a syllable refers to the basic unit of sound in words that includes at least a vowel sound, although it often combines a vowel and a consonant sound. For example, the word "carrot" has two syllables "ca" and "rrot" and each of these has both a vowel and a consonant sound. Additionally, a line is said to be decasyllabic if it contains ten syllables, this occurs in "To whom it may concern: Hello and bye" as all the line has ten units of sound or syllables as shown here: "To/whom/it/may/con/cern/He/llo/and/bye" (slashes separate syllables).

Answer 2

The correct answer is D.

Decasyllabic means consisting of or containing ten syllables.

A syllable is a group or a unit of a speech sounds. They are the building blocks of words. A word consisting of a single syllable is called monosyllable, dissyllable means consisting of two syllables, and trisyllable of three etc.

In the above example, only the fourth example is decasyllabic, the first one has seven syllables, the second fourteen, the third thirteen.

To-whom-it-may-con-cern-he-llo-and-bye.