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
Correct Answer :
B. Leisure
Related Questions
Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Titus Andronicus
Taming of the Shrew
White Devil
Hamlet
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
John keats
Lord Byron
Solan
Sappho
Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
Alliterative verse
Sonnet form
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic hexameter
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.
A simile is more descriptive.
A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesnt.
A simile must use animals in the comparison.
In coleridges poem The rime of the Ancient Marinerwhere were the three gallants going?
A funeral
A wedding
Market
To the races
from which language the name chaucer has been driven?
french
latin
italian
english
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Hindu
Celtic
Arabic
Arameic
Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
Boer War
Second World War
Korean War
First World War
Which represents an example of alliteration?
Language Arts
Peter Piper Picked Peppers
I like music.
A beautiful scenery with music
Which is not a poetry form?
epic
tale
ballad
sonnet
Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
Denver
St Louis
Cuba
Toronto
What is the word for a play on words?
pun
simile
haiku
metaphor
Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?
H. W. Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dylan Thomas
William Wordsworth
Where did chaucer bury?
westminster abbey
kent church
chapel at windsor
None of the above
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
William Shakespeare was born in the year:
1564
1544
1578
1582
Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?
Carolyn Kizer
Mary Oliver
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
chaucer was imprisoned during-?
hundred years war
Black death
Peasant revolt
None of the above
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
What is a funny poem of five lines called?
Quartet
Limerick
Sextet
Palindrome
Which of the following is not a poet?
William Shakespeare
Terry Saylor
Elizabeth b. Browning
Emily Dickinson
The Cambridge school refers to a group who emerged when?
The 1900's
The 1960's
The 1920's
The 1930's
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
What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?
Prosody
Allegory
Scansion
Assonance
Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dick Whittington
Thomas Lancaster
King Richard II
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 Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
The theme is …?
a plot.
an character
an address
the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?
Onomatopeia
Metonymy
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?
William Carlos Williams
Emily Dickinson
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Robert Frost