Question

What does the passage consist of?

• A. Arrhythmic rhyme
• B. Rhyming couplets only
• C. Rhyming couplets and triplets
• D. Epic hyperbole
• E. Passive verbs only

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

Rhyming couplets and triplets

Options B and C: In the first paragraph of the passage, the words 'stage', 'age' form a rhyming couplet; 'impeach', 'teach', 'preach' form a rhyming triplet.
In the second: 'Reign', 'refrain'; 'snore', 'roar', 'there, here' are rhyming couplets.
Third para: 'place', 'race', 'grace' form a rhyming triplet; 'possest', 'blest' form a rhyming couplet.
Hence, it can be seen that the passage consists of rhyming couplets as well as triplets.
So option B is incorrect and C is correct.
Option A: The passage is not arrhythmic, it has rhyming couplets and triplets.
Arrhythmic rhyme is when a poem/verse does not have a rhythm.
Option D: The passage does not contain a hyperbole, or exaggeration of ideas.
Option E: There are active verbs present in this passage: 'Poets may write', 'care', 'regard', 'preach', etc.
Hence options A, B, D and E are incorrect.