What was strange about Emily Dickinson?

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What was strange about Emily Dickinson?

A. She rarely left home

B. She wrote in code

C. She never attempted to publish her poetry

D. She wrote her poems in invisible ink

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Which poem ends I shall but love thee better after death?

A. How do I love thee

B. Ode to a Grecian urn

C. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes

D. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

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How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?

A. An awful way to earn a living

B. A game of knowledge

C. The soul exposed

D. An explosion of language

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Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?

A. John keats

B. Lord Byron

C. Solan

D. Sappho

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Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?

A. Light verse

B. Romantic

C. Political satire

D. War poems

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Which is an example of a proverb?

A. Get a stake in our business.

B. You cant have your cake and eat it, too

C. The snow was white as cotton.

D. Youre driving me crazy.

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Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?

A. Nature

B. Epics

C. Sonnets

D. Nonsense

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Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:

A. Titus Andronicus

B. Taming of the Shrew

C. White Devil

D. Hamlet

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Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?

A. Anthony Hopkins

B. Richard Burton

C. Tom Jones

D. Dylan Thomas

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Which American writer published A brave and startling truth in 1996

A. Robert Hass

B. Jessica Hagdorn

C. Maya Angelou

D. Micheal Palmer

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Who wrote The Winters Tale?

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. John Dryden

C. Christopher Marlowe

D. William Shakespeare

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What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

A. Personification

B. Hyperboles

C. Alliteration

D. Onomatopoeia

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Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?

A. Betjeman

B. Hughes

C. Marvel

D. Larkin

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What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?

A. Alliterative

B. Epic

C. Acrostic

D. Haiku

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Sylvia Plath married which English poet?

A. Masefield

B. Causley

C. Hughes

D. Larkin

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

A. William Blake

B. William Shakespeare

C. William Morris

D. William Wordsworth

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In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which poetess?

A. Elizabeth Bishop

B. Sylvia Plath

C. Marianne Moore

D. Laura Jackson

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From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?

A. The 12th

B. The 14th

C. The 17th

D. The 19th

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

A. Queen Cristina

B. Top Girls

C. Camille

D. The Homecoimg

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Who wrote Canterbury Tales?

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Dick Whittington

C. Thomas Lancaster

D. King Richard II

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Who wrote the poems, On death and Women, Wine, and Snuff?

A. John Milton

B. John Keats

C. P.b. Shelley

D. William Wordsworth

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Which of the following is a Japanese poetic form?

A. Jintishi

B. Villanelle

C. Ode

D. Tanka

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Which poet invented the concept of the variable foot in poetry?

A. William Carlos Williams

B. Emily Dickinson

C. Gerard Manly Hopkins

D. Robert Frost

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William Shakespeare was born in the year:

A. 1564

B. 1544

C. 1578

D. 1582

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from which language the name chaucer has been driven?

A. french

B. latin

C. italian

D. english

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What is the earliest surviving European poem?

A. The Homeric epic

B. The Gilgamesh epic

C. The Deluge epic

D. The Hesiodic ode

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

A. Book of poetry

B. A radio play

C. A stage play

D. a short film

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Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?

A. Onomatopeia

B. Metonymy

C. Alliteration

D. Hyperbole

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Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?

A. Carolyn Kizer

B. Mary Oliver

C. Sylvia Plath

D. Marianne Moore

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The magazine Contemporary Poetry and Prose was inspired by which exhibition?

A. The Festival of Britain

B. The Surrealist Exhibition

C. People of the 20th Century

D. Drawing the 20th CEntury

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The Cambridge school refers to a group who emerged when?

A. The 1900's

B. The 1960's

C. The 1920's

D. The 1930's

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A. She rarely left home

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