From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
The 12th
The 14th
The 17th
The 19th
Correct Answer :
A. The 12th
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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 of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
Troilus and criseyde
House of fame
The canterbury tales
Parliament of fowls.
Of which poet was it said Even if hes not a great poet, hes certainly a great something?
Elliot
Kipling
Cummings
Brooke
chaucers franklin was guilty of which sin?
Lust
Corruption
Theft
Gluttony
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
Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?
H. W. Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dylan Thomas
William Wordsworth
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.
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Masefield
Causley
Hughes
Larkin
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
The Epic
The Comic
The Occult
The Tragic
chaucer was imprisoned during-?
hundred years war
Black death
Peasant revolt
None of the above
Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?
Skeptical
Authoritative
Impressionistic
Both a & c
Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
Nature
Epics
Sonnets
Nonsense
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
An awful way to earn a living
A game of knowledge
The soul exposed
An explosion of language
Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
Light verse
Romantic
Political satire
War poems
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
24
31
21
28
There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by This is a couplet from the Bailiffs Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet?
Metaphor
Synecdoche
Euphemism
Irony
In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Laura Jackson
Where did chaucer bury?
westminster abbey
kent church
chapel at windsor
None of the above
Harold Nicholson described which poet as Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners?
e. e. Cummings
T. S. Elliot
John Greenleaf Whittier
Walt Whitman
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
The theme is …?
a plot.
an character
an address
the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
Who wrote Ten Little Niggers?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Irvine Welsh
Agatha Christie
None of above
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Alliterative verse
Sonnet form
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic hexameter
Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?
Onomatopeia
Metonymy
Alliteration
Hyperbole
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.
What is the title of the poem that begins thus What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
Comfort
Leisure
Relaxation
Tranquility
Which is an exaggeration?
Alliteration
Haiku
Hyperbole
Prose