Practice Questions: Rhyme And Rhyme Scheme

JAMB/UTME English Literature Practice Questions: Rhyme And Rhyme Scheme

Q1: In poetry, rhyme is best defined as -
(a) The repetition of similar sounds at the end of lines
(b) The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
(c) The use of figurative language to create imagery
(d) The pattern of line breaks in a stanza

Q2: The rhyme scheme of a poem that rhymes ABAB CDCD is called -
(a) Couplet rhyme
(b) Enclosed rhyme
(c) Alternate rhyme
(d) Continuous rhyme

Q3: Read the following lines:
"The cat sat on the mat,
Wearing a funny hat."
The rhyme scheme is -
(a) AB
(b) AA
(c) AABB
(d) ABAB

Q4: When two consecutive lines rhyme, they form a -
(a) Triplet
(b) Quatrain
(c) Couplet
(d) Sestet

Q5: Internal rhyme occurs when -
(a) The first and last lines of a stanza rhyme
(b) Words within the same line rhyme with each other
(c) Every alternate line contains a rhyme
(d) The rhyme scheme changes in each stanza

Q6: Read these lines:
"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."
The rhyme scheme is -
(a) AABB
(b) ABCD
(c) ABCB
(d) ABAB

Q7: A poem with no rhyme scheme is called -
(a) Free verse
(b) Blank verse
(c) Sonnet
(d) Ballad

Q8: The rhyme pattern ABBA CDDC is known as -
(a) Alternate rhyme
(b) Continuous rhyme
(c) Enclosed rhyme
(d) Irregular rhyme

Q9: Read the lines:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
This line demonstrates -
(a) End rhyme only
(b) Internal rhyme only
(c) Both internal and end rhyme
(d) No rhyme at all

Q10: Eye rhyme refers to words that -
(a) Look similar but sound different when pronounced
(b) Sound identical and are spelled identically
(c) Have the same number of syllables
(d) Appear only at the beginning of lines

Q11: Read the following:
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date."
The rhyme scheme is -
(a) AABB
(b) ABBA
(c) ABCB
(d) ABAB

Q12: Slant rhyme is characterized by -
(a) Perfect matching of vowel and consonant sounds
(b) Similar but not identical sounds
(c) Complete absence of sound correspondence
(d) Rhyming only at the beginning of words

Q13: A tercet with an AAA rhyme scheme is called -
(a) A monorhyme tercet
(b) An enclosed tercet
(c) An alternate tercet
(d) A free verse tercet

Q14: Read these lines:
"Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night."
The rhyme between "bright" and "night" is an example of -
(a) Internal rhyme
(b) Slant rhyme
(c) End rhyme
(d) Eye rhyme

Q15: The primary function of rhyme in poetry is to -
(a) Make poems longer and more complex
(b) Create musical quality and emphasize meaning
(c) Confuse readers with similar sounds
(d) Replace the need for literary devices

Q16: In analyzing rhyme scheme, each new rhyme sound is represented by -
(a) A different number
(b) The same letter throughout
(c) A different letter of the alphabet
(d) Roman numerals

Q17: Read the following:
"Once upon a time, in a kingdom so grand,
A princess dwelt in a castle of sand."
The words "grand" and "sand" demonstrate -
(a) Perfect rhyme
(b) Consonance only
(c) Assonance only
(d) No sound relationship

Q18: Masculine rhyme occurs when -
(a) Only male poets use the rhyme
(b) The rhyme involves single stressed syllables
(c) The rhyme involves two or more syllables
(d) The poem is written about masculine themes

Q19: Read the stanza:
"The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas."
The rhyme scheme is -
(a) AB
(b) AA
(c) ABAB
(d) AABB

Q20: Feminine rhyme is characterized by -
(a) Rhymes written only by women
(b) Two or more syllables with stress on the penultimate syllable
(c) Single syllable stressed rhymes
(d) Rhymes that sound gentle or soft

Q21: Read the lines:
"I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where."
The relationship between "air" and "where" is -
(a) Eye rhyme
(b) Perfect rhyme
(c) Slant rhyme
(d) Internal rhyme

Q22: A poem with the rhyme scheme ABABCC is likely -
(a) A Shakespearean sonnet quatrain with couplet
(b) A ballad stanza
(c) Free verse
(d) Blank verse

Q23: Identical rhyme occurs when -
(a) The same word is used at the end of different lines
(b) Two different words sound exactly alike
(c) Lines have the same number of syllables
(d) Words have similar meanings

Q24: Read the following:
"Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality."
The rhyme scheme is -
(a) AABB
(b) ABAB
(c) ABCB
(d) AAAA

Q25: The absence of rhyme in unrhymed iambic pentameter is called -
(a) Free verse
(b) Blank verse
(c) Prose poetry
(d) Vers libre