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Questions Related to reading comprehension

Choose the best option with the pair of rhyming words:

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. coupon, shun

  2. coupon, flaunt

  3. coupon, pawn

  4. coupon, blunt

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

"Pawn" and "coupon" are the only two words from the given choices that sound similar to each other with similar phonetic transcription. Therefore, they are the only rhyming pair. Option C is the answer.

Which of the pairs given are rhyming words?
Select the best option(s). 

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. bowl, howl

  2. bowl, sole

  3. bowl, mole

  4. bowl, foul

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Correct Option: B,C
Explanation:

"Bowl, sole" and "bowl, mole" are the only two pairs that contains words which sound similar and has similar phonetic transcription. So, they rhyme with each other. Option B and C are the correct answer.

Which of the pairs given are rhyming words?
Select the best option. 

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. truth, fruit

  2. truth, crude

  3. truth, stood

  4. truth, tooth

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

"Truth" and "tooth" are the only two words from the given choices that sound similar and have similar phonetic transcription. Therefore, they are the rhyming pair. Option D is the answer.

Identify the rhyming words from the list given:
dazzle, puzzle, muscle, capable, reliable 

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. dazzle, capable

  2. puzzle, muscle

  3. capable, puzzle

  4. muscle, reliable

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Option A - 'Dazzle' ends with the sound 'zal' and 'capable' ends with the sound 'bal'. Thus option A is incorrect.

Option C - 'Capable' ends with the sound 'bal' and 'Puzzle' ends with the sound 'zal'. Thus option C is incorrect.
Option D - 'Muscle' ends with the sound 'szal' and 'reliable' ends with the sound 'bal'. Thus option D is incorrect.
Option B - 'Puzzle' ends with the sound 'zal' and 'Muscle' ends with the sound 'sal'. Thus option B is the correct answer.

Which of the pairs given are rhyming words?
Select the best option. 

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. monk, stunk

  2. monk, chunk

  3. monk, flunk

  4. All the above

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Monk, stunk, chunk and flunk all sound similar to each other, with similar phonetic transcriptions. Therefore, we can conclude that all the given words rhyme with each other. Option D is the correct answer.

Choose which pair contains rhyming words:

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. sour, floor

  2. sour, power

  3. sour, sore

  4. floor, flower

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

"Sour" and "Power" is the only pair from the given choices that sound similar, with similar phonetic transcription. Therefore, "sour, power" is the only pair with rhyming words. Option B is the answer.

Identify the rhyming words from the list given:
ajar, care, dart, mark, star

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. dart, mark

  2. ajar, star

  3. care, star

  4. care, mark

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Option A - Dart is pronounced as - da: rt. Whereas, 'Mark' ends with a 'k' sound. Thus option A is incorrect.

Option C - 'Care' is pronounced as 'cae-r', like air. Whereas, 'Star' is pronounced like 'are'. Thus option C is incorrect.
Option D - 'Care' is pronounced like 'air', whereas 'mark' ends with a 'k' sound. Thus option D is incorrect.
Option B - 'Ajar and star' both are pronounced like 'are'. Thus option B is the correct answer.

Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verses:

Better to see your cheek grown hollow,
Better to see your temple worn,
Than to forget to follow, follow,
After the sound of a silver horn.

Better to bind your brow with willow
And follow, follow until you die,
Than to sleep with your head on a golden pillow,
Nor lift it up when the hunt goes by.

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. abab cdcd

  2. abba cddc

  3. abcd abcd

  4. adda cdcd

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The rhyme scheme can be identified through the final word of each line:

hollow-follow(a)
worn-horn(b)
willow-pillow(c)
die-by(d)
So, the rhyme scheme followed here is abab cdcd. So, the answer is A.

Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verses:

Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
The nightingale does sit so late,
And studying all the summer night,
Her matchless songs does meditate;

Ye country comets, that portend
No war nor prince's funeral,
Shining unto no higher end
Than to presage the grass's fall;

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. abba cddc

  2. abcd abcd

  3. abab cdcd

  4. abab cddc

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The rhyme scheme can be identified through the final word of each line:

light-night(a)
late-meditate(b)
portend-end(c)
funeral-fall(d)
So, the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd. Option C is the correct answer.

Identify the rhyme scheme in the following poem:

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. abcd abcd

  2. abba cbbc

  3. abab cdcd

  4. abba cddc

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Here, there is an alternate rhyme pattern - 'star' rhymes with 'bar', 'me' rhymes with 'sea', 'asleep' with 'deep' and 'foam' with 'home.' So, we can conclude that the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd. Option C is the correct answer.