What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Alliterative
Epic
Acrostic
Haiku
Correct Answer :
C. Acrostic
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Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
Jintishi
Villanelle
Ode
Tanka
Which is not a poetry form?
epic
tale
ballad
sonnet
The Cambridge school refers to a group who emerged when?
The 1900's
The 1960's
The 1920's
The 1930's
Of which poet was it said Even if hes not a great poet, hes certainly a great something?
Elliot
Kipling
Cummings
Brooke
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Denver
St Louis
Cuba
Toronto
Who wrote the poems, On death and Women, Wine, and Snuff?
John Milton
John Keats
P.b. Shelley
William Wordsworth
In his poem Kipling said If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . .?
Glory
Ruin
Disaster
victory
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
24
31
21
28
in which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?
French
Latin
Middle english
English
Which is an exaggeration?
Alliteration
Haiku
Hyperbole
Prose
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?
Queen Cristina
Top Girls
Camille
The Homecoimg
Why did Poetry Quarterly cease publication in 1953?
Owner convicted of fraud
Fall in Sales
Rise in taxation on magazines
Shortage of paper
Which of the following is not a work of John Keats?
Endymion
To some ladies
To hope
None of above
Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England)?
Victor Hugo
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Which American writer published A brave and startling truth in 1996
Robert Hass
Jessica Hagdorn
Maya Angelou
Micheal Palmer
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost
Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?
H. W. Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dylan Thomas
William Wordsworth
What is a sonnet?
A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
Who wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles?
Agatha Christie
H Ryder-Haggard
P D James
Arthur Conan Doyle
Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
Titus Andronicus
Macbeth
Hamlet
None of the above
In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Laura Jackson
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
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Masefield
Causley
Hughes
Larkin
How has Stephen Dunn been described in the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry?
A poet of middleness
Capturing a sense of spiritual marooness
One of the leading prairie poets
Has some distinction as a critic
Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
Light verse
Romantic
Political satire
War poems
What is the study of poetrys meter and form called?
Prosody
Potology
Rheumatology
Scansion
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
From which of Shakespeares plays is this famous line: Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet