What is a sonnet?
A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
Correct Answer :
D. A poem of fourteen lines
Related Questions
chaucer was imprisoned during-?
hundred years war
Black death
Peasant revolt
None of the above
William Shakespeare was born in the year:
1564
1544
1578
1582
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
Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
Betjeman
Hughes
Marvel
Larkin
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Alliterative
Epic
Acrostic
Haiku
What is the word for a play on words?
pun
simile
haiku
metaphor
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Blake
William Shakespeare
William Morris
William Wordsworth
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
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
how many children chaucer had?
4
1
0
2
Which represents an example of alliteration?
Language Arts
Peter Piper Picked Peppers
I like music.
A beautiful scenery with music
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.
Which of the following is not a work of John Keats?
Endymion
To some ladies
To hope
None of above
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
Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
Jintishi
Villanelle
Ode
Tanka
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
in which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?
French
Latin
Middle english
English
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?
Prosody
Allegory
Scansion
Assonance
In coleridges poem The rime of the Ancient Marinerwhere were the three gallants going?
A funeral
A wedding
Market
To the races
Which is an exaggeration?
Alliteration
Haiku
Hyperbole
Prose
Complete this Shakespearan line Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring:
Impediments
Inconveniences
Worries
Troubles
Who wrote Ten Little Niggers?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Irvine Welsh
Agatha Christie
None of above
How many languages did chaucer know?
2
4
1
5
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Alliterative verse
Sonnet form
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic hexameter
Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Titus Andronicus
Taming of the Shrew
White Devil
Hamlet
chaucers franklin was guilty of which sin?
Lust
Corruption
Theft
Gluttony
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
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Hindu
Celtic
Arabic
Arameic
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
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
24
31
21
28