Question

Read these line from Emily Dickinson's poem "435" ("Much Madness is divinest Sense"):

In this, as All, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you're straightway dangerous -
And handled with a chain -

What are lines 2 and 4 an example of?

A. Eye rhyme
B. Simile
C. Exact rhyme
D. Personification

Answer 1

C. Exact rhyme is the answer.

Answer 2

Answer: C. Exact rhyme.

An exact rhyme (also, perfect rhyme or true rhyme) is a form of rhyme in which two words or phrases have the same final accented vowel and succeeding consonants, while the preceding consonants are different. Other examples of this type of rhyme include "great-late," "sky-high," bean-green".