in which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?
French
Latin
Middle english
English
Correct Answer :
C. Middle english
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Comfort
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Relaxation
Tranquility
Which poem ends I shall but love thee better after death?
How do I love thee
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In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Dick Whittington
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Disaster
victory
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pun
simile
haiku
metaphor
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Lord Byron
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Denver
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
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A wedding
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The 12th
The 14th
The 17th
The 19th
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Blake
William Shakespeare
William Morris
William Wordsworth
How has Stephen Dunn been described in the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?
A poet of middleness
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One of the leading prairie poets
Has some distinction as a critic
In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Laura Jackson
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A Midsummer Nights Dream
Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
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A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?
Prosody
Allegory
Scansion
Assonance
Why did Poetry Quarterly cease publication in 1953?
Owner convicted of fraud
Fall in Sales
Rise in taxation on magazines
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Who wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles?
Agatha Christie
H Ryder-Haggard
P D James
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Language Arts
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The 1900's
The 1960's
The 1920's
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Kipling
Cummings
Brooke
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24
31
21
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Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
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Book of poetry
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Get a stake in our business.
You cant have your cake and eat it, too
The snow was white as cotton.
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