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Question 10 • CP English Language 1

Which best defines a couplet?

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

Explanation

A couplet is a pair of consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme. Choice D, “two consecutive rhyming lines,” gives that definition. A stanza of four lines is a quatrain, while a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables is a metrical foot.

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