Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Toronto
Ottowa
Montreal
Correct Answer :
C. Ottowa
Related Questions
Who wrote the poems, On death and Women, Wine, and Snuff?
John Milton
John Keats
P.b. Shelley
William Wordsworth
Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
Titus Andronicus
Macbeth
Hamlet
None of the above
Which American writer published A brave and startling truth in 1996
Robert Hass
Jessica Hagdorn
Maya Angelou
Micheal Palmer
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Blake
William Shakespeare
William Morris
William Wordsworth
Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
Light verse
Romantic
Political satire
War poems
From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
The 12th
The 14th
The 17th
The 19th
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost
Of Mans first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden. This is an extract from:
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Samson Agonistes
Divorce Tracts
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
John keats
Lord Byron
Solan
Sappho
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.
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Denver
St Louis
Cuba
Toronto
Of which poet was it said Even if hes not a great poet, hes certainly a great something?
Elliot
Kipling
Cummings
Brooke
The theme is …?
a plot.
an character
an address
the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
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
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?
Prosody
Allegory
Scansion
Assonance
Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?
Carolyn Kizer
Mary Oliver
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
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.
What is the study of poetrys meter and form called?
Prosody
Potology
Rheumatology
Scansion
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Alliterative verse
Sonnet form
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic hexameter
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
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
24
31
21
28
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 the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
How many languages did chaucer know?
2
4
1
5
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
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
which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
Troilus and criseyde
House of fame
The canterbury tales
Parliament of fowls.
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Alliterative
Epic
Acrostic
Haiku
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia