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QuizMultiple Choice

Rhyme Scheme and Rhythm in a Sonnet by William Shakespeare

Question 10 • MA-English Language Arts 9

Which best defines a couplet?

Answer
A
A couplet is a stanza of four poetic lines.
B
A couplet is two consecutive rhyming lines.
C
A couplet is three quatrains and two rhyming lines.
D
A couplet is a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Which best defines a couplet?