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
Correct Answer :
B. A game of knowledge
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What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Alliterative
Epic
Acrostic
Haiku
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
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
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.
Which is not a poetry form?
epic
tale
ballad
sonnet
The theme is …?
a plot.
an character
an address
the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
Which is an exaggeration?
Alliteration
Haiku
Hyperbole
Prose
What is a sonnet?
A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England)?
Victor Hugo
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
What is the study of poetrys meter and form called?
Prosody
Potology
Rheumatology
Scansion
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
24
31
21
28
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
Betjeman
Hughes
Marvel
Larkin
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Masefield
Causley
Hughes
Larkin
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
The 12th
The 14th
The 17th
The 19th
chaucer was imprisoned during-?
hundred years war
Black death
Peasant revolt
None of the above
Who wrote the poems, On death and Women, Wine, and Snuff?
John Milton
John Keats
P.b. Shelley
William Wordsworth
Why did Poetry Quarterly cease publication in 1953?
Owner convicted of fraud
Fall in Sales
Rise in taxation on magazines
Shortage of paper
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Blake
William Shakespeare
William Morris
William Wordsworth
In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Laura Jackson
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
John keats
Lord Byron
Solan
Sappho
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
How many languages did chaucer know?
2
4
1
5
William Shakespeare was born in the year:
1564
1544
1578
1582
Which poem ends I shall but love thee better after death?
How do I love thee
Ode to a Grecian urn
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?
Queen Cristina
Top Girls
Camille
The Homecoimg
Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
Nature
Epics
Sonnets
Nonsense