Rhymes

Rhymes

Multiple Choice

DO NOW

Read the sentence and answer the question.

They also observed what happen to kittens during their first year of life.

What change should be made in the sentence?

• Change year to years

• Change what to why

• Change happen to happened

• Change life to lives

Multiple Choice

WORD STUDY

Stop tossing the ball into the house!

What does the word tossing mean?

• abstain

• choose

• throw

• bounce

Rhymes and Types of Rhymes

Rhyming words are words that sound the same at the ends, such as cat / hat, or jumping / bumping.

When a poem has rhyming words at the ends of its lines, these are called “end rhymes.” Here is an example of end rhyme:

My cat is nice.

My cat likes mice.

Rhyme Scheme

A “rhyme scheme” is a way of describing the pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Each new sound at the end of a line is given a letter, starting with “A,” then “B,” and so on. If an end sound repeats the end sound of an earlier line, it gets the same letter as the earlier line.

Here are three slightly different cat poems, each with a different rhyme scheme.

The first is AABB, the second is ABAB, and the third is ABCB):

Example

My cat is nice. - A

My cat likes mice - A

My cat is fat. - B

I like my cat. - B

Example

My cat is gray. - A

My cat is fat. - B

My cat is cute. - C

I like my cat. - B

Multiple Choice

My Penmanship is Pretty Bad

My penmanship is pretty bad.

My printing’s plainly awful.

In truth, my writing looks so sad

it ought to be unlawful.

• ABCD

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCC

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Mr. Brown the Circus Clown

Mr. Brown, the circus clown

puts his clothes on upside down.

He wears his hat upon his toes

and socks and shoes upon his nose.

• ABCD

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCC

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All My Great Excuses

I started on my homework

but my pen ran out of ink.

My hamster ate my homework.

My computer’s on the blink.

• ABCD

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCC

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Today I Had a Rotten Day

Today I had a rotten day.

As I was coming in from play

I accidentally stubbed my toes

and tripped and fell and whacked my nose.

• ABCD

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCC

Daily Quiz

Multiple Choice

What is the rhyme scheme?

• A B A B C D A D
• No rhyme scheme
• A A B B C C
•  LMNOP

Multiple Choice

Which words don't rhyme with anything else in the poem?

• none
• horses
• Dumpty
• again

Multiple Choice

What is the rhyme scheme?

• A B C D E F G
• AA BB CC DD
• A B C B A B C D
• A B A B C D C D

Multiple Choice

Which word rhymes with all three?
butterfly
shy
multiply

• bite
• eye
• ugly
• many

Multiple Choice

Which word does not rhyme with the following three?
kite
light
rewrite

• stoplight
• meteorite
• satellite
• sigh

Multiple Choice

Complete the rhyme scheme

• A

  A

• A

  B

• B

  B

• B

  A

Multiple Choice

Complete the rhyme scheme

• A

  B

• B

  A

• A

  A

• B

  B

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True or false: You can sometimes tell if a poem has rhythm just by looking at it

• False, you have to read it out loud

• True, if the lines are about the same length

• What is rhythm?

Multiple Choice

Rhyme scheme helps keep _______ and can make the poem fun.

• rhymes

• the poem going

• me awake

• rhythm

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True or False: Rhyming words sound the same AND look the same at the end.

• True, they look AND sound the same.

• False, they look the same, but they sound different.

• False, they sound the same, but they can look different.

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Rhyming words sound the same _______

• at the end of the word.

• at the beginning of the word.

• because they are the same.

• but mean different things.

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Rhyme scheme is the pattern of _______ that comes at the end of each line or stanza in poetry

• repeating

• rhyme scheme

• rhyming

• sounds

Multiple Choice

What is the rhyme scheme for this poem

• ABCD

• ABAB

• ABBA

• BABA

Multiple Choice

Which couplet shows an AABB pattern

• There was a man,

  A tall, tall man

• Sam loved to eat

  Strawberry jam

• Among the rain

  and lights

• The sun is shining bright

  This is a lovely sight.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following pairs of words rhyme?

• Banana and Apple

• Cry and Pie

• Baby and Lady

• Fast and Furious

Multiple Choice

rest

• test

• rid

• glad

• mast

Multiple Choice

Why do you fear,

my lovely dear-

the storm is not near

Do the lines contain internal rhymes or end rhymes?

• internal rhymes

• end rhymes

Multiple Choice

Flowers and prowler make a complete rhyme.

• True

• False