Rhyme schemes and usage

Terza Rima Rhyme Scheme

• Uses tercets, three-line stanzas, its interlocking pattern is: ABA BCB CDC DED and so on.

• it often repeats like a couplet, uses rhyme scheme of AAA

• a poem in which every line uses the same rhyme scheme

• it uses the rhyme scheme of ABBA.

Rhyme scheme helps keep _______ and can make the poem fun.

• rhymes

• the poem going

• me awake

• rhythm

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?

They put me in the oven to bake.

Me, a deprived and miserable cake.

Feeling the heat, I started to bubble.

Watching the others, I knew I was in trouble.

-"The Life of a Cupcake", by Shelby Greer

• rhythm

• assonance

• AABB

• personification

What is a "couplet" in poetry?

• A poem of 14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

• Two lines successive rhyming lines

• A group of eight lines

• A metrical foot made up of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

What is the definition for Rhyme Scheme?

• poem that does not follow a set pattern

• a set pattern of rhyme that a poem follows

• the use of one thing to stand for another

Couplet

• a poem in which every line uses the same rhyme scheme, it uses the pattern ABAB CDCD EFEF.

• It uses the rhyme scheme of ABBA.

• Uses tercets, three-line stanzas, its interlocking pattern is: ABA BCB CDC DED and so on.

• It contains two-line stanzas with the AA rhyme scheme of AA BB CC and DD.

When you wish upon a star,

makes no difference who you are,

anything you heart desires will come to you

• BAC

• AAA

• AAB

end rhyme

• repetition of consonant sounds within words, phrases and sentences

• repetition of vowel sounds within words, phrases and sentences

• when the last words of poem lines rhyme

• words that imitate the sound it makes

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;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

• AABBCC

• ABABCC

• ABABBB

• ACBCBA

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you. A) ABAB B) AABB C) ABBA D) ABCB

• D

• C

• A

• B