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Rhyme in Descriptive Poetry

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these lines from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" contains an example of perfect rhyme?

  1. Water, water, everywhere,
  2. And all the boards did shrink and swell
  3. The ice was here, the ice was there,
  4. And through the drifts the snowy clifts
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In William Wordsworth's poem "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey", which of these lines demonstrates slant rhyme?

  1. Five years have past; five summers, with the length
  2. Of five long winters!
  3. And I have felt
  4. A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these lines from John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" contains an example of internal rhyme?

  1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
  2. My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
  3. Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
  4. One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shalott", which of these lines demonstrates masculine rhyme?

  1. On either side the river lie
  2. Long fields of barley and of rye
  3. That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
  4. And thro' the field the road runs by
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these lines from Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" contains an example of feminine rhyme?

  1. Whose woods these are I think I know.
  2. His house is in the village though;
  3. He will not see me stopping here
  4. To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways", which of these lines demonstrates exact rhyme?

  1. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
  2. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
  3. For the ends of being and ideal grace.
  4. I love thee with the passion put to use
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these lines from Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Myself" contains an example of assonance?

  1. I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
  2. And what I assume you shall assume,
  3. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  4. I loafe and invite my soul,
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death", which of these lines demonstrates consonance?

  1. Because I could not stop for Death –
  2. He kindly stopped for me –
  3. The Dews drew quivering and chill –
  4. For only Gossamer, my Gown –
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these lines from Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem "The Windhover" contains an example of alliteration?

  1. I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
  2. dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon,
  3. in his riding
  4. Of the rolling level underneath him steady air.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In Christina Rossetti's poem "Goblin Market", which of these lines demonstrates onomatopoeia?

  1. We must not look at goblin men,
  2. When we make the stroke of midnight,
  3. Goblins buy our fruits four times as fast
  4. Listen, listen, listen, listen
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these lines from D.H. Lawrence's poem "Snake" contains an example of enjambment?

  1. A snake came to my water-trough
  2. On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,
  3. To drink among the hens.
  4. And drank till he was full.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In Ezra Pound's poem "In a Station of the Metro", which of these lines demonstrates sprung rhythm?

  1. The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
  2. Petals on a wet, black bough.
  3. And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
  4. And no bells toll, and no cocks crow.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these lines from T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" contains an example of free verse?

  1. Let us go then, you and I,
  2. When the evening is spread out against the sky
  3. Like a patient etherized upon a table;
  4. In the room the women come and go
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy", which of these lines demonstrates confessional poetry?

  1. Daddy, I have had to kill you.
  2. You died before I had time –
  3. Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
  4. I made a model of you,
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these lines from Robert Lowell's poem "Skunk Hour" contains an example of imagism?

  1. My mind's not right.
  2. A car radio bleats,
  3. You can hear the ocean in the night,
  4. I myself am hell; nobody's here –
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