What is the word for a play on words?

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What is the word for a play on words?

A. pun

B. simile

C. haiku

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A. pun

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C. Sextet

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A. 4

B. 1

C. 0

D. 2

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A. Nature

B. Epics

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A. Lust

C. Theft

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Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?

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How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?

A. 24

B. 31

C. 21

D. 28

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The Cambridge school refers to a group who emerged when?

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Harold Nicholson described which poet as Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners?

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Which is an exaggeration?

B. Haiku

D. Prose

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Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?

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Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?

C. Hamlet

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___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman?

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Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?

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How many languages did chaucer know?

A. 2

B. 4

C. 1

D. 5

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Which is not a poetry form?

A. epic

B. tale

C. ballad

D. sonnet

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Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England)?

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What is study of meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem called as?

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Who wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles?

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Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?

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Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?

A. Denver

C. Cuba

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Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?

A. Hindu

B. Celtic

C. Arabic

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In what form did Dylan Thomass Under Milk Wood first become known?

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Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?

B. Hughes

C. Marvel

D. Larkin

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What was strange about Emily Dickinson?

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Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?

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Answer 1

D. metaphor

Answer 2

A. Quartet

Answer 3

B. Limerick

Answer 4

D. Palindrome

Answer 5

A. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer 6

B. Irvine Welsh

Answer 7

C. Agatha Christie

Answer 8

D. None of above

Answer 9

C. Sonnets

Answer 10

D. Nonsense

Answer 11

A. Robert Hass

Answer 12

B. Jessica Hagdorn

Answer 13

C. Maya Angelou

Answer 14

D. Micheal Palmer

Answer 15

B. Corruption

Answer 16

D. Gluttony

Answer 17

A. The Festival of Britain

Answer 18

B. The Surrealist Exhibition

Answer 19

C. People of the 20th Century

Answer 20

D. Drawing the 20th CEntury

Answer 21

A. Owner convicted of fraud

Answer 22

B. Fall in Sales

Answer 23

C. Rise in taxation on magazines

Answer 24

D. Shortage of paper

Answer 25

A. William Blake

Answer 26

B. William Shakespeare

Answer 27

C. William Morris

Answer 28

D. William Wordsworth

Answer 29

A. The 1900's

Answer 30

B. The 1960's

Answer 31

C. The 1920's

Answer 32

D. The 1930's

Answer 33

A. e. e. Cummings

Answer 34

B. T. S. Elliot

Answer 35

C. John Greenleaf Whittier

Answer 36

D. Walt Whitman

Answer 37

A. Alliteration

Answer 38

C. Hyperbole

Answer 39

A. H. W. Longfellow

Answer 40

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 41

C. Dylan Thomas

Answer 42

D. William Wordsworth

Answer 43

A. Titus Andronicus

Answer 44

B. Macbeth

Answer 45

D. None of the above

Answer 46

A. Queen Cristina

Answer 47

B. Top Girls

Answer 48

C. Camille

Answer 49

D. The Homecoimg

Answer 50

A. Light verse

Answer 51

B. Romantic

Answer 52

C. Political satire

Answer 53

D. War poems

Answer 54

A. Victor Hugo

Answer 55

B. Alexander Pope

Answer 56

C. John Milton

Answer 57

D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Answer 58

A. Prosody

Answer 59

B. Allegory

Answer 60

C. Scansion

Answer 61

D. Assonance

Answer 62

A. Agatha Christie

Answer 63

B. H Ryder-Haggard

Answer 64

C. P D James

Answer 65

D. Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer 66

A. The Epic

Answer 67

B. The Comic

Answer 68

C. The Occult

Answer 69

D. The Tragic

Answer 70

A. George Bernard Shaw

Answer 71

B. John Dryden

Answer 72

C. Christopher Marlowe

Answer 73

D. William Shakespeare

Answer 74

B. St Louis

Answer 75

D. Toronto

Answer 76

D. Arameic

Answer 77

A. Book of poetry

Answer 78

B. A radio play

Answer 79

C. A stage play

Answer 80

D. a short film

Answer 81

A. Betjeman

Answer 82

A. She rarely left home

Answer 83

B. She wrote in code

Answer 84

C. She never attempted to publish her poetry

Answer 85

D. She wrote her poems in invisible ink

Answer 86

A. Anthony Hopkins

Answer 87

B. Richard Burton

Answer 88

C. Tom Jones

Answer 89

D. Dylan Thomas

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