Question

The following question is based on your reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. PUCK Fairy king, attend, and mark: I do hear the morning lark. OBERON Then, my queen, in silence sad, Trip we after the night's shade: We the globe can compass soon, Swifter than the wandering moon. TITANIA Come, my lord, and in our flight Tell me how it came this night That I sleeping here was found With these mortals on the ground. What poetic device is used here? a. Rhyme c. Symbolism b. Repetition d. Metaphor Please select the best answer from the choices provided

Answer 1

The poetic device being used in the excerpt is:

A. rhyme

Step-by-step explanation:

We can define rhyme as the repetition of ending sounds in words, especially words that are at the end of poetry lines. Let's use the first lines of the excerpt as an example:

Fairy king, attend and mark:

I do hear the morning lark.

The words "mark" and "lark" sound quite similar, right? That is because they have the same final sounds /ark/, the only difference between them being the first consonant sound of each /m/ and /l/. This is an example of rhyme.

The same happens in the other lines, with the pairs "soon" and "moon", "flight" and "night", and "found" and "ground".