Which best defines a couplet?
a) a couplet is a stanza of four poetic lines.
b) a couplet is two consecutive rhyming lines.
c) a couplet is three quatrains and two rhyming lines.
d) a couplet is a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.

B) A couplet is two consecutive rhyming lines.

The word couple is often used to talk about two people together. A couplet in poetry is two consecutive rhyming lines. The glue that holds them together is the rhyme. Shakespearean sonnets often end in a rhyming couplet that sums up and finalizes the content of the sonnet.

A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a foot. A stanza of four poetic lines is a quatrain. A sonnet is often three quatrains and a couplet.

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