What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Correct Answer :
D. Onomatopoeia
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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
Which represents an example of alliteration?
Language Arts
Peter Piper Picked Peppers
I like music.
A beautiful scenery with music
What is the study of poetrys meter and form called?
Prosody
Potology
Rheumatology
Scansion
Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
Light verse
Romantic
Political satire
War poems
Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?
Jintishi
Villanelle
Ode
Tanka
Which is not a poetry form?
epic
tale
ballad
sonnet
chaucer was imprisoned during-?
hundred years war
Black death
Peasant revolt
None of the above
What is a funny poem of five lines called?
Quartet
Limerick
Sextet
Palindrome
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Denver
St Louis
Cuba
Toronto
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?
Carolyn Kizer
Mary Oliver
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature?
Skeptical
Authoritative
Impressionistic
Both a & c
chaucers franklin was guilty of which sin?
Lust
Corruption
Theft
Gluttony
from which language the name chaucer has been driven?
french
latin
italian
english
which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
Troilus and criseyde
House of fame
The canterbury tales
Parliament of fowls.
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
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
24
31
21
28
William Shakespeare was born in the year:
1564
1544
1578
1582
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
In his poem Kipling said If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . .?
Glory
Ruin
Disaster
victory
Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Titus Andronicus
Taming of the Shrew
White Devil
Hamlet
What is the word for a play on words?
pun
simile
haiku
metaphor
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Alliterative
Epic
Acrostic
Haiku
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
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
There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by This is a couplet from the Bailiffs Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet?
Metaphor
Synecdoche
Euphemism
Irony
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
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