Which is an exaggeration?
Alliteration
Haiku
Hyperbole
Prose
Correct Answer :
C. Hyperbole
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Why did Poetry Quarterly cease publication in 1953?
Owner convicted of fraud
Fall in Sales
Rise in taxation on magazines
Shortage of paper
William Shakespeare was born in the year:
1564
1544
1578
1582
Which of the following is not a work of John Keats?
Endymion
To some ladies
To hope
None of above
Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with?
Nature
Epics
Sonnets
Nonsense
Which poem ends I shall but love thee better after death?
How do I love thee
Ode to a Grecian urn
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
From what century does the poetic form the folk ballad date?
The 12th
The 14th
The 17th
The 19th
Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
Boer War
Second World War
Korean War
First World War
Which Welsh poet wrote Under Milk Wood?
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Burton
Tom Jones
Dylan Thomas
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 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.
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Masefield
Causley
Hughes
Larkin
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
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
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
How many languages did chaucer know?
2
4
1
5
Which is an exaggeration?
Alliteration
Haiku
Hyperbole
Prose
in which language the stories of canterbury tale are written?
French
Latin
Middle english
English
What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?
Alliterative
Epic
Acrostic
Haiku
Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry?
Light verse
Romantic
Political satire
War poems
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
John keats
Lord Byron
Solan
Sappho
Which American writer published A brave and startling truth in 1996
Robert Hass
Jessica Hagdorn
Maya Angelou
Micheal Palmer
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
Of which poet was it said Even if hes not a great poet, hes certainly a great something?
Elliot
Kipling
Cummings
Brooke
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
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.
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Titus Andronicus
Taming of the Shrew
White Devil
Hamlet
In what form did Dylan Thomass Under Milk Wood first become known?
Book of poetry
A radio play
A stage play
a short film
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Toronto
Ottowa
Montreal
Where did chaucer bury?
westminster abbey
kent church
chapel at windsor
None of the above