Rhyme schemes and usage

Terza Rima Rhyme Scheme

• Uses tercets, three-line stanzas, its interlocking pattern is: ABA BCB CDC DED and so on.

• it often repeats like a couplet, uses rhyme scheme of AAA

• a poem in which every line uses the same rhyme scheme

• it uses the rhyme scheme of ABBA.

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

• rhymes

• the poem going

• me awake

• rhythm

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What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?

They put me in the oven to bake.

Me, a deprived and miserable cake.

Feeling the heat, I started to bubble.

Watching the others, I knew I was in trouble.

-"The Life of a Cupcake", by Shelby Greer

• rhythm

• assonance

• AABB

• personification

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What is a "couplet" in poetry?

• A poem of 14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

• Two lines successive rhyming lines

• A group of eight lines

• A metrical foot made up of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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What is the definition for Rhyme Scheme?

• poem that does not follow a set pattern

• a set pattern of rhyme that a poem follows

• the use of one thing to stand for another

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Couplet

• a poem in which every line uses the same rhyme scheme, it uses the pattern ABAB CDCD EFEF.

• It uses the rhyme scheme of ABBA.

• Uses tercets, three-line stanzas, its interlocking pattern is: ABA BCB CDC DED and so on.

• It contains two-line stanzas with the AA rhyme scheme of AA BB CC and DD.

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When you wish upon a star,

makes no difference who you are,

anything you heart desires will come to you

• BAC

• AAA

• AAB

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end rhyme

• repetition of consonant sounds within words, phrases and sentences

• repetition of vowel sounds within words, phrases and sentences

• when the last words of poem lines rhyme

• words that imitate the sound it makes

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I wandered 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.

• AABBCC

• ABABCC

• ABABBB

• ACBCBA

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What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you. A) ABAB B) AABB C) ABBA D) ABCB

• D

• C

• A

• B

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