chaucer was imprisoned during-?
hundred years war
Black death
Peasant revolt
None of the above
Correct Answer :
A. hundred years war
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Light verse
Romantic
Political satire
War poems
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.
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The 1960's
The 1920's
The 1930's
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Owner convicted of fraud
Fall in Sales
Rise in taxation on magazines
Shortage of paper
chaucer was imprisoned during-?
hundred years war
Black death
Peasant revolt
None of the above
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The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
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Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
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epic
tale
ballad
sonnet
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
The Epic
The Comic
The Occult
The Tragic
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Comfort
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Relaxation
Tranquility
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John Milton
John Keats
P.b. Shelley
William Wordsworth
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Elliot
Kipling
Cummings
Brooke
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A simile must use animals in the comparison.
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William Shakespeare
Terry Saylor
Elizabeth b. Browning
Emily Dickinson
Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
Nature
Epics
Sonnets
Nonsense
Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?
H. W. Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dylan Thomas
William Wordsworth
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Book of poetry
A radio play
A stage play
a short film
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She rarely left home
She wrote in code
She never attempted to publish her poetry
She wrote her poems in invisible ink
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Boer War
Second World War
Korean War
First World War
Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
Jintishi
Villanelle
Ode
Tanka
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
John keats
Lord Byron
Solan
Sappho
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Blake
William Shakespeare
William Morris
William Wordsworth
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost
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Hindu
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Arabic
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Titus Andronicus
Macbeth
Hamlet
None of the above
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Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who wrote Ten Little Niggers?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Irvine Welsh
Agatha Christie
None of above
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Sonnet form
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic hexameter
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Vancouver
Toronto
Ottowa
Montreal