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Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?

A. Light verse

B. Romantic

C. Political satire

D. War poems

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D. War poems


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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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Sylvia Plath married which English poet?

A. Masefield

B. Causley

C. Hughes

D. Larkin

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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 wrote the poems, On death and Women, Wine, and Snuff?

A. John Milton

B. John Keats

C. P.b. Shelley

D. William Wordsworth

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In his poem Kipling said If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . .?

A. Glory

B. Ruin

C. Disaster

D. victory

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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 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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Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?

A. Vancouver

B. Toronto

C. Ottowa

D. Montreal

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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:

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. Divorce Tracts

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How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?

A. 24

B. 31

C. 21

D. 28

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Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?

A. Betjeman

B. Hughes

C. Marvel

D. Larkin

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Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?

A. Jintishi

B. Villanelle

C. Ode

D. Tanka

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Where did chaucer bury?

A. westminster abbey

B. kent church

C. chapel at windsor

D. None of the above

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Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?

A. Politician

B. Dramatist

C. Novelist

D. Architect

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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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Who wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles?

A. Agatha Christie

B. H Ryder-Haggard

C. P D James

D. Arthur Conan Doyle

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How many languages did chaucer know?

A. 2

B. 4

C. 1

D. 5

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Which is an exaggeration?

A. Alliteration

B. Haiku

C. Hyperbole

D. Prose

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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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Which of the following is not a poet?

A. William Shakespeare

B. Terry Saylor

C. Elizabeth b. Browning

D. Emily Dickinson

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Who wrote Canterbury Tales?

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Dick Whittington

C. Thomas Lancaster

D. King Richard II

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Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England)?

A. Victor Hugo

B. Alexander Pope

C. John Milton

D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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What is the earliest surviving European poem?

A. The Homeric epic

B. The Gilgamesh epic

C. The Deluge epic

D. The Hesiodic ode

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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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What is a funny poem of five lines called?

A. Quartet

B. Limerick

C. Sextet

D. Palindrome

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What was strange about Emily Dickinson?

A. She rarely left home

B. She wrote in code

C. She never attempted to publish her poetry

D. She wrote her poems in invisible ink

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What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

A. Personification

B. Hyperboles

C. Alliteration

D. Onomatopoeia

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What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?

A. Alliterative

B. Epic

C. Acrostic

D. Haiku

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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

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The magazine Contemporary Poetry and Prose was inspired by which exhibition?

A. The Festival of Britain

B. The Surrealist Exhibition

C. People of the 20th Century

D. Drawing the 20th CEntury