Power and Influence 1.5

What is a rhyme scheme?

• The planning phase of writing poetry

• A type of poetry that always rhymes

• The arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem

Read this stanza from a poem called 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' by William Wordsworth. Which pairs of words rhyme?

I wander'd lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

• hills and daffodils

• cloud and hills

• trees and breeze

What is assonance?

• The repeating of sounds at the ends of words

• The repeating of the sound at the beginning of words

• The repeating of consonants in words

• The repeating of vowel sounds in words

Which of the following pairs of words includes assonance?

• lovely / lullaby

• hitch / catch

• play / plunge

• fairy / scare

What is consonance?

• The repeating of consonants in words

• The repeating of the sound at the beginning of words

• The repeating of vowel sounds in words

• The repeating of sounds at the ends of words

Which of these phrases includes consonance?

• Tickets taken

• Pleasure in weather

• Eye in the sky

• Fairly scary

What is a rhyming couplet?

• Pairs of words which rhyme

• Two-line stanzas

• Two lines which rhyme

• Poems that feature rhyme

Which of the following is not a rhyming couplet?

• Love a child is ever crying,
  Please him, and he straight is flying

• Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
  In the forests of the night

• Dark house, by which once more I stand
  Here in the long unlovely street

Complete the following sentence.

Quatrain is a set of.....lines in a poem.

• 2

• 4

• 6

• 8

Is this statement true or false?

Quatrains do not follow a strict rhythm or rhyme scheme.

• True

• False