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Marking the syllables in a line of poetry is called _____.

A-Answer
B-alliteration
C-scansion
D-consonance
E-assonance

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c) scansion

Step-by-step explanation:

The analysis of the metrical patterns of a poem by organizing its lines into feet of stressed and unstressed syllables and showing the major pauses, if any. Scansion also involves the classification of a poem's stanza, structure, and rhyme scheme.
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