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
Correct Answer :
B. The Surrealist Exhibition
Related Questions
Which is an exaggeration?
Alliteration
Haiku
Hyperbole
Prose
Which American writer published A brave and startling truth in 1996
Robert Hass
Jessica Hagdorn
Maya Angelou
Micheal Palmer
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
What is the study of poetrys meter and form called?
Prosody
Potology
Rheumatology
Scansion
Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?
Onomatopeia
Metonymy
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dick Whittington
Thomas Lancaster
King Richard II
The Cambridge school refers to a group who emerged when?
The 1900's
The 1960's
The 1920's
The 1930's
Who wrote The Winters Tale?
George Bernard Shaw
John Dryden
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
chaucers franklin was guilty of which sin?
Lust
Corruption
Theft
Gluttony
In his poem Kipling said If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . .?
Glory
Ruin
Disaster
victory
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Hindu
Celtic
Arabic
Arameic
Who wrote the poems, On death and Women, Wine, and Snuff?
John Milton
John Keats
P.b. Shelley
William Wordsworth
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?
Prosody
Allegory
Scansion
Assonance
Which of the following is not a work of John Keats?
Endymion
To some ladies
To hope
None of above
How many languages did chaucer know?
2
4
1
5
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
The Epic
The Comic
The Occult
The Tragic
Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
Betjeman
Hughes
Marvel
Larkin
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
The theme is …?
a plot.
an character
an address
the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
What is the word for a play on words?
pun
simile
haiku
metaphor
Who wrote Ten Little Niggers?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Irvine Welsh
Agatha Christie
None of above
Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
Light verse
Romantic
Political satire
War poems
Complete this Shakespearan line Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:
Impediments
Inconveniences
Worries
Troubles
Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
Nature
Epics
Sonnets
Nonsense
in which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?
French
Latin
Middle english
English
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Denver
St Louis
Cuba
Toronto
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Toronto
Ottowa
Montreal
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.