Rhyme Schemes and Patterns

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Which of the following is an example of a rhyme scheme?

  1. ABAB

  2. AABB

  3. ABCB

  4. ABCA


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

ABAB is a rhyme scheme where the first and third lines rhyme, and the second and fourth lines rhyme.

Which of the following is an example of a rhyme pattern?

  1. AABB

  2. ABAB

  3. ABCB

  4. ABCA


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

AABB is a rhyme pattern where the first and second lines rhyme, and the third and fourth lines rhyme.

What is the name of the rhyme scheme where the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme, and the third line does not rhyme?

  1. ABAB

  2. AABB

  3. ABCB

  4. ABCA


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

ABCB is a rhyme scheme where the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme, and the third line does not rhyme.

Which of the following is an example of a terza rima rhyme scheme?

  1. ABA BCB CDC DED EFE

  2. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

  3. ABCB DEFE GHIG JK

  4. ABCA BCDB CDEC DEFD


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

ABA BCB CDC DED EFE is an example of a terza rima rhyme scheme, where the first and third lines of each stanza rhyme, and the second line of each stanza rhymes with the first and third lines of the following stanza.

What is the name of the rhyme scheme where the first, second, and third lines rhyme, and the fourth line does not rhyme?

  1. ABAB

  2. AABB

  3. ABCB

  4. ABCA


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

ABCA is a rhyme scheme where the first, second, and third lines rhyme, and the fourth line does not rhyme.

Which of the following is an example of a heroic couplet?

  1. To err is human, to forgive divine.

  2. The world is too much with us; late and soon,

  3. I wandered lonely as a cloud

  4. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

To err is human, to forgive divine is an example of a heroic couplet, which is a pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter.

What is the name of the rhyme scheme where the first, third, and fourth lines rhyme, and the second line does not rhyme?

  1. ABAB

  2. AABB

  3. ABCB

  4. ABCA


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

ABCB is a rhyme scheme where the first, third, and fourth lines rhyme, and the second line does not rhyme.

Which of the following is an example of a Spenserian stanza?

  1. ABAB BCBC CDCD EE

  2. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

  3. ABCB DEFE GHIG JK

  4. ABCA BCDB CDEC DEFD


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

ABAB BCBC CDCD EE is an example of a Spenserian stanza, which is a nine-line stanza with a rhyme scheme of ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.

What is the name of the rhyme scheme where the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme, and the third line does not rhyme?

  1. ABAB

  2. AABB

  3. ABCB

  4. ABCA


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

ABCB is a rhyme scheme where the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme, and the third line does not rhyme.

Which of the following is an example of a villanelle?

  1. Do not go gentle into that good night

  2. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  3. The Waste Land

  4. Do not go gentle into that good night


Correct Option: A,D
Explanation:

Do not go gentle into that good night is an example of a villanelle, which is a nineteen-line poem with a rhyme scheme of ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA.

What is the name of the rhyme scheme where the first, second, and third lines rhyme, and the fourth line does not rhyme?

  1. ABAB

  2. AABB

  3. ABCB

  4. ABCA


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

ABCB is a rhyme scheme where the first, second, and third lines rhyme, and the fourth line does not rhyme.

Which of the following is an example of a sonnet?

  1. Do not go gentle into that good night

  2. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  3. The Waste Land

  4. Sonnet 18


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Sonnet 18 is an example of a sonnet, which is a fourteen-line poem with a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

What is the name of the rhyme scheme where the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme, and the third line does not rhyme?

  1. ABAB

  2. AABB

  3. ABCB

  4. ABCA


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

ABCB is a rhyme scheme where the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme, and the third line does not rhyme.

Which of the following is an example of a haiku?

  1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  2. The Waste Land

  3. Do not go gentle into that good night

  4. A haiku is a three-line poem


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

A haiku is a three-line poem with a rhyme scheme of 5-7-5 syllables.

What is the name of the rhyme scheme where the first, second, and third lines rhyme, and the fourth line does not rhyme?

  1. ABAB

  2. AABB

  3. ABCB

  4. ABCA


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

ABCB is a rhyme scheme where the first, second, and third lines rhyme, and the fourth line does not rhyme.

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