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In coleridges poem The rime of the Ancient Marinerwhere were the three gallants going?

A. A funeral

B. A wedding

C. Market

D. To the races

Correct Answer :

B. A wedding


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In what form did Dylan Thomass Under Milk Wood first become known?

A. Book of poetry

B. A radio play

C. A stage play

D. a short film

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Which represents an example of alliteration?

A. Language Arts

B. Peter Piper Picked Peppers

C. I like music.

D. A beautiful scenery with music

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What is a sonnet?

A. A poem of six lines

B. A poem of eight lines

C. A poem of twelve lines

D. A poem of fourteen lines

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Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?

A. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte

B. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth

C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

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What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

A. No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.

B. A simile is more descriptive.

C. A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesnt.

D. A simile must use animals in the comparison.

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Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?

A. Hindu

B. Celtic

C. Arabic

D. Arameic

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The theme is …?

A. a plot.

B. an character

C. an address

D. the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.

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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. A Midsummer Nights Dream

B. Hamlet

C. Othello

D. Romeo and Juliet

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Which American writer published A brave and startling truth in 1996

A. Robert Hass

B. Jessica Hagdorn

C. Maya Angelou

D. Micheal Palmer

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What is a funny poem of five lines called?

A. Quartet

B. Limerick

C. Sextet

D. Palindrome

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Which is not a poetry form?

A. epic

B. tale

C. ballad

D. sonnet

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chaucer was imprisoned during-?

A. hundred years war

B. Black death

C. Peasant revolt

D. None of the above

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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?

A. Comfort

B. Leisure

C. Relaxation

D. Tranquility

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in which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?

A. French

B. Latin

C. Middle english

D. English

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Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?

A. Sea scenes

B. Rural Idyll

C. War

D. Innocent childhood

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Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?

A. H. W. Longfellow

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Dylan Thomas

D. William Wordsworth

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The Cambridge school refers to a group who emerged when?

A. The 1900's

B. The 1960's

C. The 1920's

D. The 1930's

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Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?

A. William Blake

B. William Shakespeare

C. William Morris

D. William Wordsworth

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Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?

A. Titus Andronicus

B. Macbeth

C. Hamlet

D. None of the above

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From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?

A. The 12th

B. The 14th

C. The 17th

D. The 19th

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Who wrote The Winters Tale?

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. John Dryden

C. Christopher Marlowe

D. William Shakespeare

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What is the study of poetrys meter and form called?

A. Prosody

B. Potology

C. Rheumatology

D. Scansion

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Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?

A. Carolyn Kizer

B. Mary Oliver

C. Sylvia Plath

D. Marianne Moore

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Why did Poetry Quarterly cease publication in 1953?

A. Owner convicted of fraud

B. Fall in Sales

C. Rise in taxation on magazines

D. Shortage of paper

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from which language the name chaucer has been driven?

A. french

B. latin

C. italian

D. english

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Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?

A. Nature

B. Epics

C. Sonnets

D. Nonsense

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Who wrote Ten Little Niggers?

A. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

B. Irvine Welsh

C. Agatha Christie

D. None of above

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In coleridges poem The rime of the Ancient Marinerwhere were the three gallants going?

A. A funeral

B. A wedding

C. Market

D. To the races

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Which poem ends I shall but love thee better after death?

A. How do I love thee

B. Ode to a Grecian urn

C. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes

D. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

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___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?

A. Queen Cristina

B. Top Girls

C. Camille

D. The Homecoimg