Rhyme and Meter

Which of the following is an example of common meter?

• Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me, I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.

• Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,Waves, undulating waves--liquid, uneven, emulous waves,Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface

• What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore—And then run?

• See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet,The trouble in the pace and the uncertainWavering!

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

• Ball/Fall

• Slick/Wick

• Sew/Low

• Afraid/Brave

Which of the following lines would correctly finish this stanza, demonstrating common meter?

• But I couldn't find a thing

• Kept looking 'till they were clear

• Until they were laid bare

• To alleviate the pain

Which of the following lines would correctly finish this stanza, demonstrating slant rhyme? I walked across the empty lane, Afraid to see the light; Searched around for answers,

• That weren't so black and white

• Searched with all my might

• Knowledge is worth the fight

• To alleviate the pain

What is a key detail of the rhyme scheme of the poem "Mutton"?

• Imagery

• Repeating pattern

• Meter

• Emotions

A rhyme scheme in which every single line rhymes with each other (must be over 4 lines of poetry)

• Alternate

• Couplet

• Triplet

• Monorhyme

A rhyme scheme in which every other line rhymes

• Alternate

• Couplet

• Triplet

• Monorhyme

The ordered pattern of similar sounding words at the end of lines of poetry

• Meter

• Rhyme Scheme

• Irony

• Act

A line of poetry with 3 iambs in it, or 6 syllables

• Iambic Trimeter

• Iambic Tetrameter

• Iambic Pentameter

• Iambic Hexameter

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

• Alternate

• Couplet

• Triplet

• Monorhyme