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The Human Experience — Test

Question 6 • CMS 2026-2027 English II CREDIT RECOVERY

Which lines from "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove provide an example of a rhyme?

Answer
A
“This is for the woman with one black wing / perched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erect”
B
“her spine resides in, that flaming pillar— / this priestess in the romance of mirrors.”
C
“to the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved dead, / Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead.”
D
“love a skull in the circular window / of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.”

Explanation

Choice C rhymes “dead” with “footstead,” whose final stressed sound matches. A pairs “wing” with “erect,” B pairs “pillar” with “mirrors,” and D pairs “window” with “brow”; those word endings do not rhyme.

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