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Identify the rhyme scheme in the following verse:

Promise me no promises,
So I will not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. ababcdcd

  2. abbacddc

  3. abbacdcd

  4. abcdabcd

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

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

promises-liberties(a)
you-true(b)
uncast-past(c)
go-know(d)
So, the rhyme scheme is ababcdcd. The correct answer is option A.

Identify the rhyme scheme in the following verse:

Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. aabbcc

  2. abcabc

  3. ababcd

  4. abcabb

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In the given poem, there is a particular rhyme scheme followed. This is determined by the last word of every line.
As one can see, the rhyming takes place between the consecutive lines -
First two lines: The last words 'flame' and 'frame' rhyme. Hence, this forms a rhyming couplet.
Second two lines: The last words 'flying' and 'dying' rhyme. Hence, this forms a rhyming couplet.
Last two lines: The last words 'strife' and 'life' rhyme. Hence, this forms a rhyming couplet.
These can be denoted as aa bb cc, as the letters 'aa' refer to the consecutive rhyming words 'flame' and 'frame', 'bb' refer to 'flying' and 'dying', 'cc' refer to 'strife' and 'life'. Hence option A is correct.
Option B: 'abcabc' means that the first (flame) and fourth (dying) words rhyme, the second and fifth (frame and strife) words rhyme, the third and sixth (flying life) words rhyme.
They don't.
Similarly, options C and D do not denote the correct rhyme scheme of the given verse.
Hence options B, C and D are incorrect.

Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verses:

Twirling your blue skirts, travelling the sward
Under the towers of your seminary,
Go listen to your teachers old and contrary
Without believing a word.

Tie the white fillets then about your hair
And think no more of what will come to pass
Than bluebirds that go walking on the grass
And chattering on the air.

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. abba cddc

  2. abab cdcd

  3. abba cdcd

  4. aaabb ccdd

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

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

Sward-Word(a)
Seminary-Contrary(b)
Hair-Air(c)
Pass-Grass(d)
So, the rhyme scheme followed here is abba cddc. Option A is the correct answer.

Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verse:

Let them buy your big eyes,
In the secret earth securely,
Your thin fingers and your fair,
Soft, indefinite-coloured hair,
All of these in some way, surely,
From the secret earth shall rise;
Not for these I sit and stare;
Broken and bereft completely:
Your young flesh that sat so neatly
On your little bones will sweetly
Blossom in the air.

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. abccbbccbbc

  2. abccbacbbbc

  3. abbccabccbb

  4. abcabccbbcc

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

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

Eyes(a)
Securely(b)
Fair-Hair(c)
Surely(b)
Rise(a)
Stare(c)
Completely-Neatly-Sweetly(b)
Air(c)
So, the rhyme scheme is abccbacbbbc. So, the correct answer is option B.

Identify the rhyme scheme of the following verse:

Stay, O sweet, and do not rise!
The light that shines comes from thine eyes;
The day breaks not: it is my heart,
Because that you and I must part.
Stay! Or else my joys will die
And perish in their infancy.

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. aabbcd

  2. aabcbc

  3. ababab

  4. abcabc

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The rhyme scheme followed can be found out through the last word of each line. Here, the following words rhyme:

Rise-Eyes(a)
Heart-Part(b)
However, 'die' and 'infancy' do not rhyme. So, the rhyme scheme is aabbcd. The correct answer is A.

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

poetry reading comprehension english

  1. disguise, wise

  2. disguise, slice

  3. disguise, chastise

  4. disguise, hides

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Correct Option: A,C
Explanation:

From the given pairs, 'disguise' sounds similar to both 'wise' and 'chastise' with similar phonetic transcriptions. Therefore we can conclude that the rhyming pairs are "disguise, wise" and "disguise, chastise". Options A and C are the correct answers.

State whether true or false:
A farce is a literary genre that makes use of highly exaggerated and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience.

drama reading comprehension english

  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable. It is a comic dramatic work that uses buffoonery and horseplay and typically includes crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. In this context, the given statement holds true. Option A is the answer.

Fill in the blank with the most suitable option:
A _______ is a lighthearted comedy that centers around a ridiculous plot that usually involves exaggerated and improbable events. 

drama reading comprehension english

  1. farce

  2. tragedy

  3. monologue

  4. soliloquy

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A farce is a comic dramatic work that uses buffoonery, horseplay and typically includes crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. Therefore, we can conclude that the correct answer here is option A- farce.

State whether true or false.
Farces do not contain improbable coincidences and generally do not mock weaknesses of humans and human society.

drama reading comprehension english

  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A farce is a comic dramatic work that uses buffoonery, horseplay and typically includes crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. In this context, we can conclude that the given statement is false. Option B is the answer.

State whether true or false.
We usually find farces in theater and films, and never in literary works.

drama reading comprehension english

  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A farce is a comic dramatic piece that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration, and violent horseplay. Though usually seen in theatrical works and films, it does not mean that we can't find it in literary works. We find farce in comic plays and other literary genres. So, the given statement is false.