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Poetry Terms Review- Rhymes and Rhyme Schemes

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

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1.

a ____ is a subdivision of a poem, specifically a group of words arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand margin.

a)

Line Break

b)

Stanza

c)

Line

d)

Rhyme

2.

A _______ is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line

a)

Stanza

b)

Line Break

c)

Line

d)

Rhyme

3.

A ______________ is the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line.

a)

Rhyme

b)

Line End

c)

Line Break

d)

Stanza

4.

In general, the repetition of the syllables at the end of a line of verse or poetry. (Words that have the same sound when spoken.)

a)

Rhyme Scheme

b)

Stanza

c)

Line

d)

Rhyme

5.

The rhyming of the last words in the lines of poetry. (the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.)

a)

Stanza

b)

Rhyme Scheme

c)

Poetic Meter

d)

Line Break

6.

Poems that do not have a rhyme scheme

a)

Non-rhyming Poetry

b)

Rhymeless Poetry

c)

Free Verse/Blank Verse Poetry

d)

Poetry Sans Rhymes

7.

When determining the rhyme scheme of a poem or song, we generally use ___________ to indicate the rhyme scheme.

a)

Rhymes

b)

Letters

c)

Numbers

d)

Roman Numerals

8.

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? ("Dreams" by Langston Hughes)

Hold fast to dreams/

For if dreams die/

Life is a broken-winged bird/

That cannot fly./

a)

ABAB

b)

AABB

c)

ABAC

d)

ABCB

9.

What is the rhyme scheme of "What are Heavy" by Christina Rossetti?

What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow/

What are brief? Today and tomorrow/

What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth/

What are deep? The ocean and truth.

(a)  

10.

When I am dead and over me bright April/

Shakes out her rain-drenched hair/

Tho' you should lean above me broken-hearted/

I shall not care./

(a)  

11.

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?

If I can stop one heart from breaking/

I shall not live in vain/

If I can ease one life the aching/

Or cool one pain/

Or help one fainting robin/

Unto his nest again/

I shall not live in vain./

(a)  

12.

hit and put.A partial or imperfect rhyme. The vowel sounds in half rhymes are usually not identical. ("worm" and "swarm" or "blood" and "brood.")

a)

Eye Rhyme

b)

Half Rhyme

c)

Exact Rhyme

d)

Internal Rhyme

13.

rhyme which occurs within a single line of verse

a)

Exact Rhyme

b)

Multisyllabic Rhyme

c)

Eye Rhyme

d)

Internal Rhyme

14.

a rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently (Ex. "cove and dove" and "wind and bind")

a)

Half Rhyme

b)

Eye Rhyme

c)

Exact Rhyme

d)

Multisyllabic Rhyme

15.

Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different. (I.E. A perfect rhyme) ("dog and hog"; "red and dead". etc.)

a)

Half Rhyme

b)

Exact Rhyme

c)

Internal Rhyme

d)

Eye Rhyme

16.

What type of end rhyme do we see in Mos Def's "Respiration?"

We New York, the narcotic/

Strength in metal and fiber optics/

Where mercenaries is paid to trade hot stock tips/

a)

Exact Rhyme

b)

Half Rhyme

c)

Internal Rhyme

d)

Eye Rhyme

17.

What type of rhyme do we see in this poem?

"I take it you already know/

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?/

Others may stumble, but not you/

On hiccough, thorough, lough and through/"

a)

Eye Rhyme

b)

Internal Rhyme

c)

Multisyllabic Rhyme

18.

Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle/

Underneath the western skies/

On my cayuse let me wander over yonder/

'Til I see the mountains rise/

— Cole Porter, Don’t fence me in

a)

Eye Rhyme

b)

Half Rhyme

c)

Internal Rhyme

19.

What type of rhyme do we see in Black Thought's "Respond/React"?

Slow up before you get dropped and closed like a caption/

Fractional kids don't know the time for action/

  Styles got the rhythm that of an Anglo-Saxon/

  Round of applause, an avalanche of clappin/

that's what happen, now what's your reaction?/

a)

Exact Rhyme

b)

Multisyllabic Rhyme

c)

Eye Rhyme

20.

rhymes that contain two or more syllables (ex. "lyrical line" and "Einstein")

a)

Big Rhymes

b)

Long Rhyme

c)

Multisyllabic Rhymes

d)

Exact Rhyme