In his poem Kipling said If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . .?
Glory
Ruin
Disaster
victory
Correct Answer :
C. Disaster
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From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
The 12th
The 14th
The 17th
The 19th
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
The Epic
The Comic
The Occult
The Tragic
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
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Denver
St Louis
Cuba
Toronto
William Shakespeare was born in the year:
1564
1544
1578
1582
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Masefield
Causley
Hughes
Larkin
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
How has Stephen Dunn been described in the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?
A poet of middleness
Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness
One of the leading prairie poets
Has some distinction as a critic
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
Who wrote The Winters Tale?
George Bernard Shaw
John Dryden
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
What is the word for a play on words?
pun
simile
haiku
metaphor
The Cambridge school refers to a group who emerged when?
The 1900's
The 1960's
The 1920's
The 1930's
chaucers franklin was guilty of which sin?
Lust
Corruption
Theft
Gluttony
How many languages did chaucer know?
2
4
1
5
Which American writer published A brave and startling truth in 1996
Robert Hass
Jessica Hagdorn
Maya Angelou
Micheal Palmer
Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dick Whittington
Thomas Lancaster
King Richard II
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Hindu
Celtic
Arabic
Arameic
What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
She rarely left home
She wrote in code
She never attempted to publish her poetry
She wrote her poems in invisible ink
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Toronto
Ottowa
Montreal
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
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Alliterative
Epic
Acrostic
Haiku
Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Titus Andronicus
Taming of the Shrew
White Devil
Hamlet
Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?
Onomatopeia
Metonymy
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
Politician
Dramatist
Novelist
Architect
Complete this Shakespearan line Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:
Impediments
Inconveniences
Worries
Troubles
Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England)?
Victor Hugo
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
Troilus and criseyde
House of fame
The canterbury tales
Parliament of fowls.
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas