Entry Exam Category: Graduate & Professional Program Admission Exams
Course: Praxis
Exam: Praxis Reading Language Arts 5002 Practice Test
Practice Question
Extract
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine; Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmered the white moon-shine. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Line 1 best exemplifies which of the following structural elements of poetry?
Answer Choices
- A: Internal rhyme
- B: Iambic trimeter
- C: Blank verse
- D: Rhyming couplet
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Line 1 has internal rhyme with 'cloud' and 'shroud' rhyming within the line. It's not iambic trimeter, blank verse, or a rhyming couplet, making A correct.