chaucers franklin was guilty of which sin?
Lust
Corruption
Theft
Gluttony
Correct Answer :
D. Gluttony
Related Questions
Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
Nature
Epics
Sonnets
Nonsense
What is a funny poem of five lines called?
Quartet
Limerick
Sextet
Palindrome
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Hindu
Celtic
Arabic
Arameic
Which of the following is not a work of John Keats?
Endymion
To some ladies
To hope
None of above
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Alliterative
Epic
Acrostic
Haiku
From which of Shakespeares plays is this famous line: Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Which is an example of a proverb?
Get a stake in our business.
You cant have your cake and eat it, too
The snow was white as cotton.
Youre driving me crazy.
Where did chaucer bury?
westminster abbey
kent church
chapel at windsor
None of the above
Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
Titus Andronicus
Macbeth
Hamlet
None of the above
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost
which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
Troilus and criseyde
House of fame
The canterbury tales
Parliament of fowls.
Harold Nicholson described which poet as Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners?
e. e. Cummings
T. S. Elliot
John Greenleaf Whittier
Walt Whitman
Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?
H. W. Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dylan Thomas
William Wordsworth
Which American writer published A brave and startling truth in 1996
Robert Hass
Jessica Hagdorn
Maya Angelou
Micheal Palmer
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Alliterative verse
Sonnet form
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic hexameter
In his poem Kipling said If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . .?
Glory
Ruin
Disaster
victory
The magazine Contemporary Poetry and Prose was inspired by which exhibition?
The Festival of Britain
The Surrealist Exhibition
People of the 20th Century
Drawing the 20th CEntury
Which is not a poetry form?
epic
tale
ballad
sonnet
What is a sonnet?
A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
in which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?
French
Latin
Middle english
English
In what form did Dylan Thomass Under Milk Wood first become known?
Book of poetry
A radio play
A stage play
a short film
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Masefield
Causley
Hughes
Larkin
Who wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles?
Agatha Christie
H Ryder-Haggard
P D James
Arthur Conan Doyle
Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
Boer War
Second World War
Korean War
First World War
Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?
Onomatopeia
Metonymy
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Which is an exaggeration?
Alliteration
Haiku
Hyperbole
Prose
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.
A simile is more descriptive.
A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesnt.
A simile must use animals in the comparison.
Why did Poetry Quarterly cease publication in 1953?
Owner convicted of fraud
Fall in Sales
Rise in taxation on magazines
Shortage of paper