Of which poet was it said Even if hes not a great poet, hes certainly a great something?
Elliot
Kipling
Cummings
Brooke
Correct Answer :
B. Kipling
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kent church
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Thomas Lancaster
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Potology
Rheumatology
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Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
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John Dryden
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
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Epic
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Haiku
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Robert Hass
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Maya Angelou
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Light verse
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Political satire
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Glory
Ruin
Disaster
victory
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Victor Hugo
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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a plot.
an character
an address
the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
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Leisure
Relaxation
Tranquility
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Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
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Authoritative
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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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e. e. Cummings
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
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The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
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Book of poetry
A radio play
A stage play
a short film
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Metaphor
Synecdoche
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Irony
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epic
tale
ballad
sonnet
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4
1
0
2
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Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Laura Jackson
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Paradise Regained
Samson Agonistes
Divorce Tracts
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A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
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Jintishi
Villanelle
Ode
Tanka
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The 1900's
The 1960's
The 1920's
The 1930's